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7.5
CVSS
High

CVE-2023-31418

PUBLISHED

Elasticsearch uncontrolled resource consumption

Exploited in the wild Remote Low complexity No user interaction
Vendor
Elastic
Product
Elasticsearch
Published
Oct 26, 2023
EPSS
—

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.

elasticsearch

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.5 High

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

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2023-10-26 17:36:42 UTC · Source

References

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Source Added
CVE Oct 26, 2023

Timeline

  • CVE ID Reserved

  • CVE Published to Public

  • Added to KEVIntel