Elastic Agent 8.15.0 Security Update (ESA-2024-23)

Elastic Agent Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File ESA-2024-23 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. Affecte...

GHSA-PW39-F3M5-CXFC Elasticsearch Uncaught Exception leading to crash

An uncaught exception in Elasticsearch = 8.4.0 and 8.11.1 occurs when an encrypted PDF is passed to an attachment processor through the REST API. The Elasticsearch ingest node that attempts to parse the PDF file will crash. This does not happen with password-protected PDF files or with unencrypte...