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Elasticsearch vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 26, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 1, 2023

Package

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)

Affected versions

< 7.17.13
>= 8.0.0, < 8.9.0

Patched versions

7.17.13
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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 26, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 26, 2023
Reviewed Oct 30, 2023
Last updated Dec 1, 2023

Severity

High

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS score

0.126%
(49th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-31418

GHSA ID

GHSA-2cqf-6xv9-f22w

Source code

No known source code
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