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CVE-2023-31418

Elasticsearch uncontrolled resource consumption

Published: Oct 26, 2023Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-400
7.5HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
1.2%
Top 34.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
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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.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

Elastic NV
commercial·USaka elastic
ElasticsearchOn-premDatabase
Databases
Elastic Cloud EnterpriseSaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS / cloud-platform
Elastic
commercial·USaka elasticsearch co., elastic.co
ElasticsearchOn-premDatabase
Databases
elastic cloud enterprise
Databases
Maven
package-ecosystem
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch
OSS Libraries
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

https://www.elastic.co/community/security
elastic.co
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-0-7-17-13-security-update/343616
discuss.elastic.co
https://vuldb.com/ru/?id.243637
vuldb.com
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