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CVE-2023-31418

Published: Oct 26, 2023

Modified: Feb 13, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

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.

VendorProductVersions

Elastic

Elasticsearch

affected
7.17.12
affected
8.0.0 - < 8.8.2
affected
2.13.3 - < 3.6.0

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

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

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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