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CVE-2023-31418

Elasticsearch uncontrolled resource consumption

Basic Information

CVE State
PUBLISHED
Reserved Date
April 27, 2023
Published Date
October 26, 2023
Last Updated
February 13, 2025
Vendor
Elastic
Product
Elasticsearch
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.
Tags
elasticsearch

CVSS Scores

CVSS v3.1

7.5 - HIGH

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploit Status

Exploited in the Wild
Yes (2023-10-26 17:36:42 UTC) Source

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-0-7-17-13-security-update/343616 https://www.elastic.co/community/security https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0005/

Known Exploited Vulnerability Information

Source Added Date
CVE 2023-10-26 17:36:42 UTC

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Added to KEVIntel