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CVE-2024-37283: Elastic Agent Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2024-08-12 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-532
Description
An issue was discovered whereby Elastic Agent will leak secrets from the agent policy elastic-agent.yml only when the log level is configured to debug. By default the log level is set to info, where no leak occurs.
Affected products
- Elastic Agent: from 8.6.0 before 8.15.0 — fixed in 8.15.0
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Elastic Agent 8.15.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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