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CVE-2023-31418

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Published: Oct 26, 2023Modified: Nov 21, 2024

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7.5
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6
Source: NVD

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 (4)

Elastic
2 products
Elasticsearch
Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Configuration A
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Elastic
Elasticsearch
Up to 7.17.12
Elasticsearch
From 8.0.0 to 8.8.2
Configuration B
2 vulnerable
Vulnerable SoftwareAffected Versions
Elastic
Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Up to 2.13.3
Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Version 3.6.0

Related CWEs

CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (6)

Source: security@elastic.co
Vendor Advisory
Source: security@elastic.co
Source: security@elastic.co
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory

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