CVE-2023-46669Elastic Agent / Elastic Endpoint Security local API key disclosure
- 6.2MediumCVSS base score
- 0.20%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 90% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Exposure of sensitive information to local unauthorized actors in Elastic Agent and Elastic Security Endpoint can lead to loss of confidentiality and impersonation of Endpoint to the Elastic Stack. This issue was identified by Elastic engineers and Elastic has no indication that it is known or has been exploited by malicious actors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By elastic
- 19 months later
· 19 months later
Published
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| elasticCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.2.
Affected products
Elastic · Elastic Agent and Elastic Defend
- affected 8.0.0 – < 8.15.0
References
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-50860 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2023-46669)Record last updated .