CVE-2023-31418

Elasticsearch uncontrolled resource consumption

Summary

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami elasticsearch

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"7.17.13"},{"introduced":"8.0.0"},{"fixed":"8.8.3"}]}]

References

advisory discuss.elastic.co
advisory elastic.co
web security.netapp.com
web nvd.nist.gov