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Medium · 5.9 CVE-2023-31421 EUVD-2023-35729GHSA-4x46-8gg7-f9vx

Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Server, and Fleet Server Improper Certificate Validation issue

Published Oct 26, 2023 · Updated Aug 2, 2024 · Assigned by elastic

Description

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 values against that IP address and certificate validation fails, and therefore the connection is not blocked as expected.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Beats 8.0.0, 8.9.2 —
Elastic Elastic Agent 8.0.0, 8.9.2 —
Elastic APM Server 8.0.0, 8.9.2 —
Elastic Fleet Server 8.0.0, 8.9.2 —

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