Elastic Beats up to 7.17.15/8.11.2 HTTP Status Code log file

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Elastic Beats up to 7.17.15/8.11.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component HTTP Status Code Handler. Such manipulation leads to log file. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2023-49922. The attack can only be initiated within the local network. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Elastic Beats up to 7.17.15/8.11.2 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component HTTP Status Code Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a log file vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-532. Information written to log files can be of a sensitive nature and give valuable guidance to an attacker or expose sensitive user information. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby Beats and 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 Beats or Elastic Agent attempted to ingest, this could lead to the insertion of sensitive or private information in the Beats or 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.

The weakness was disclosed 12/12/2023. The advisory is available at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-49922 since 12/02/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 7.17.16 or 8.11.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Elastic

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• Beats

Version

• 7.17.0
• 7.17.1
• 7.17.2
• 7.17.3
• 7.17.4
• 7.17.5
• 7.17.6
• 7.17.7
• 7.17.8
• 7.17.9
• 7.17.10
• 7.17.11
• 7.17.12
• 7.17.13
• 7.17.14
• 7.17.15
• 8.11.0
• 8.11.1
• 8.11.2

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