CVE-2024-37283

Elastic Agent Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: August 8, 2024 at 11:34 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 07:38 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorElastic Agent

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.6%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

95%
8.6.0 ≤ v < 8.15.08.6.0
Affected range stops below 8.15.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

6.5MEDIUMelastic
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-532

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