CVE-2023-49921 (GCVE-0-2023-49921)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-07-26 05:10 – Updated: 2024-08-02 22:09
VLAI
Summary
An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Watcher search input logged the search query results on DEBUG log level. This could lead to raw contents of documents stored in Elasticsearch to be printed in logs. Elastic has released 8.11.2 and 7.17.16 that resolves this issue by removing this excessive logging. This issue only affects users that use Watcher and have a Watch defined that uses the search input and additionally have set the search input’s logger to DEBUG or finer, for example using: org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.input.search, org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher.input, org.elasticsearch.xpack.watcher, or wider, since the loggers are hierarchical.
Severity
5.2 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-26 13:47 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Assigner
elastic CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 69/100 over 173 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Elastic Elasticsearch Affected: 7.0.0 , < 7.17.16 (semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , < 8.11.2 (semver)
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Date Public
2023-12-12 06:06
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