It was discovered by Elastic engineering that when elasticsearch-certutil CLI tool is used with the csr option in order to create a new Certificate Signing Requests, the associated private key that is generated is stored on disk unencrypted even if the --pass parameter is passed in the command invocation.
| Package (Ecosystem) | Introduced | Fixed | Limit |
|---|---|---|---|
| org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch(Maven) | 8.0.0-alpha1 | 8.13.0 | N/A |
| org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch(Maven) | 0 | 7.17.23 | N/A |
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