CVE-2023-31418

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Summary

CVECVE-2023-31418
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-10-26 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-30 22:15:00 UTC
DescriptionAn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Elastic Elasticsearch All All All All
Application Elastic Elasticsearch All All All All
Application Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise 3.6.0 All All All
Application Elastic Elastic Cloud Enterprise All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0005 security.netapp.com
www.elastic.co/community/security MISC www.elastic.co
Elasticsearch 8.9.0, 7.17.13 Security Update - Security Announcements - Discuss the Elastic Stack MISC discuss.elastic.co
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 995771 Java (Maven) Security Update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-2cqf-6xv9-f22w)
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