CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-11480

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-12-08 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-08
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-404

Description

Packetbeat versions prior to 5.6.4 are affected by a denial of service flaw in the PostgreSQL protocol handler. If Packetbeat is listening for PostgreSQL traffic and a user is able to send arbitrary network traffic to the monitored port, the attacker could prevent Packetbeat from properly logging other PostgreSQL traffic.

Affected configurations

• elasticsearch packetbeat (< 5.6.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-404 Improper Resource Shutdown or Release weakness

References