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CVE-2023-31421

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-31421 describes a critical vulnerability affecting Elastic products including Beats, Elastic Agent, APM Server, and Fleet Server when acting as TLS clients. The flaw allows these clients to connect to a server without fully validating its certificate if connecting via an IP address, specifically failing to check IP Subject Alternative Name (SAN) values, despite signature validation still occurring. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity that could lead to high confidentiality impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_beats:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_agent:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:apm_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.9.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elastic_fleet_server:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.27%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
19.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0027 is in the 3rd percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/beats-elastic-agent-apm-server-and-fleet-server-8-10-1-security-update-improper-certificate-validation-issue-esa-2023-16/343385
Vendor Advisory
elastic.co / community/security
Vendor Advisory