CVE-2023-31418

HIGH7.5EPSS 0.92%

Elasticsearch vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Published: 10/26/2023Modified: 2/4/2026
Also known as:GHSA-2cqf-6xv9-f22wBIT-elasticsearch-2023-31418CGA-r5w5-xmq4-v7jm

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.

Affected packages (2)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1HIGH7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References (5)