CVE-2024-23689: ClickHouse Client Certificate Password Exposure
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 35/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.67% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 52.4% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- Fixed version: repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-client 0.4.6; repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-jdbc 0.4.6; repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-r2dbc 0.4.6.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-client 0.4.6; repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-jdbc 0.4.6; repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-r2dbc 0.4.6 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Exposure of sensitive information in exceptions in ClichHouse's clickhouse-r2dbc, com.clickhouse:clickhouse-jdbc, and com.clickhouse:clickhouse-client versions less than 0.4.6 allows unauthorized users to gain access to client certificate passwords via client exception logs. This occurs when 'sslkey' is specified and an exception, such as a ClickHouseException or SQLException, is thrown during database operations; the certificate password is then included in the logged exception message.
- Published
- Jan 19, 2024
- Updated
- Jul 14, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.6% · 52th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-209
Report tools
Action score
35
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 35 / 40 · 8.8 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.6%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- proof of concept
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
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- No public exploit code on record
- A fix has been released
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What does it mean in your environment?
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| clickhouse | java libraries | cpe:2.3:a:clickhouse:java_libraries |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- clickhouse java librariesbefore 0.4.6
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (VulnCheck). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-client
- before 0.4.6affected · maven
repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-jdbc
- before 0.4.6affected · maven
repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-r2dbc
- before 0.4.6affected · maven
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | com.clickhouse:clickhouse-client | before 0.4.6 | 0.4.6 |
| Maven | com.clickhouse:clickhouse-jdbc | before 0.4.6 | 0.4.6 |
| Maven | com.clickhouse:clickhouse-r2dbc | before 0.4.6 | 0.4.6 |
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-client | 0.4.6 | Vendor (CNA) |
| repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-jdbc | 0.4.6 | Vendor (CNA) |
| repo.maven.apache.org/maven2 com.clickhouse:clickhouse-r2dbc | 0.4.6 | Vendor (CNA) |
| Maven:com.clickhouse:clickhouse-client | 0.4.6 | Package registry (OSV) |
| Maven:com.clickhouse:clickhouse-jdbc | 0.4.6 | Package registry (OSV) |
| Maven:com.clickhouse:clickhouse-r2dbc | 0.4.6 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-209 · Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive InformationCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-primary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.