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FKIE_CVE-2023-46672

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-11-15 08:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:31

Severity

8.4 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

An issue was identified by Elastic whereby sensitive information is recorded in Logstash logs under specific circumstances. The prerequisites for the manifestation of this issue are: * Logstash is configured to log in JSON format https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/running-logstash-command-line.html , which is not the default logging format. * Sensitive data is stored in the Logstash keystore and referenced as a variable in Logstash configuration.

References

URL	Tags
security@elastic.co	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-8-11-1-security-update-esa-2023-26/347191	Release Notes
security@elastic.co	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0002/
security@elastic.co	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240229-0001/
security@elastic.co	https://www.elastic.co/community/security	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-8-11-1-security-update-esa-2023-26/347191	Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0002/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240229-0001/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://www.elastic.co/community/security	Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	elastic	logstash	*
	elastic	logstash	7.12.1

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CVE-2023-46672 (GCVE-0-2023-46672)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-11-15 08:05 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:14

Title

Logstash Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Summary

Severity

8.4 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

CWE

CWE-532 - Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Assigner

elastic mitre root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/logstash-8-11-1-secu…
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024012…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2024022…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Logstash	Affected: 8.10.0 , < 8.11.1 (semver)

Date Public

2023-11-15 06:30

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