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CVE-2023-31421 — It was discovered that when acting as TLS clients, Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Ser

It was discovered that when acting as TLS clients, Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Server, and Fleet Server did not verify whether the server certificate is valid for the target IP address; however, certificate signature validation is still performed. More specifically, when the client

CVSS
5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.09% (top 74.00%)
CWE
CWE-295
Published
2023-10-26T03:10:52.684Z
Last modified
2024-08-02T14:53:30.714Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

It was discovered that when acting as TLS clients, Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Server, and Fleet Server did not verify whether the server certificate is valid for the target IP address; however, certificate signature validation is still performed. More specifically, when the client is configured to connect to an IP address (instead of a hostname) it does not validate the server certificate's IP SAN…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
ElasticBeats8.0.0, 8.9.2
ElasticElastic Agent8.0.0, 8.9.2
ElasticAPM Server8.0.0, 8.9.2
ElasticFleet Server8.0.0, 8.9.2

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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