CVE-2023-46668

CRITICAL 9.1CVE-2023-46668 · Published 26/10/2023 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2023-46668 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.1) vulnerability affecting endpoint (elastic).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.40%, higher than 34.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
endpoint elastic	`≥ 7.9.0, ≤ 8.10.3`	No fix yet

Description

If Elastic Endpoint (v7.9.0 - v8.10.3) is configured to use a non-default option in which the logging level is explicitly set to debug, and when Elastic Agent is simultaneously configured to collect and send those logs to Elasticsearch, then Elastic Agent API keys can be viewed in Elasticsearch in plaintext. These API keys could be used to write arbitrary data and read Elastic Endpoint user artifacts.

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/endpoint-v8-10-4-security-update/345203 · Release Notes
elastic.co/community/security · Mitigation

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