Medium severity · published Aug 8, 2024
CVE-2024-37283
Elastic Agent Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
6.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered whereby Elastic Agent will leak secrets from the agent policy elastic-agent.yml only when the log level is configured to debug. By default the log level is set to info, where no leak occurs.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.6% · higher than 47% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EA
Elastic Agent · Elastic
8.6.0 before 8.15.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37283
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-37283
Issue Tracking
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-agent-8-15-0-security-update-esa-2024-23/364635
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