GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven

GHSA-2cqf-6xv9-f22w Elasticsearch vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

HIGH Published 2023-10-26 Modified 2023-10-30 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2023-31418
Ecosystem
Maven
Packages
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2023-10-30

Affected packages

• Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch: < 7.17.13 → fixed in 7.17.13 • Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch: >= 8.0.0, < 8.9.0 → fixed in 8.9.0

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2023-31418 An issue has been identified with how Elasticsearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References