Medium severity · published Dec 12, 2023
CVE-2023-49923
An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby the Documents API of App Search logged the raw contents of indexed documents at INFO log level
6.5
CVSS
0.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby the Documents API of App Search logged the raw contents of indexed documents at INFO log level. Depending on the contents of such documents, this could lead to the insertion of sensitive or private information in the App Search logs. Elastic has released 8.11.2 and 7.17.16 that resolves this issue by changing the log level at which these are logged to DEBUG, which is disabled by default.
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 48% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ES
Enterprise Search · Elastic
7.0.0 before 7.17.16; 8.0.0 before 8.11.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-49923
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-49923
Mitigation
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/enterprise-search-8-11-2-7-17-16-security-update-esa-2023-31/349181
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
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