CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-31418

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-10-26 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-10-26
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

An issue has been identified with how Elasticsearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an Elasticsearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests. The issue was identified by Elastic Engineering and we have no indication that the issue is known or that it is being exploited in the wild.

Affected configurations

• elastic elasticsearch (<= 7.17.12) • elastic elasticsearch (>= 8.0.0 <= 8.8.2) • elastic elastic cloud enterprise (<= 2.13.3) • elastic elastic cloud enterprise 3.6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References