CVE-2023-6687

Elastic Agent Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Published Dec 12, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 6.8 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Elastic Agent would log a raw event in its own logs at the WARN or ERROR level if ingesting that event to Elasticsearch failed with any 4xx HTTP status code except 409 or 429. Depending on the nature of the event that Elastic Agent attempted to ingest, this could lead to the insertion of sensitive or private information in the Elastic Agent logs. Elastic has released 8.11.3 and 7.17.16 that prevents this issue by limiting these types of logs to DEBUG level logging, which is disabled by default.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-58908 An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Elastic Agent would log a raw event in its own logs at the WARN or ERROR level if ingesting that event to Elasticsearch failed with any 4xx HTTP status code except 409 or 429. Depending on the nature of the event that Elastic Agent attempted to ingest, this could lead to the insertion of sensitive or private information in the Elastic Agent logs. Elastic has released 8.11.3 and 7.17.16 that prevents this issue by limiting these types of logs to DEBUG level logging, which is disabled by default.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
elastic
Published
Updated
Aug 2, 2024, 8:35 AM
Reserved
Dec 11, 2023, 4:20 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 12, 2023, 7:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 6:51 AM