CVE-2023-31418
Elasticsearch uncontrolled resource consumption
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.2%
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.
How to fix CVE-2023-31418
To remediate CVE-2023-31418, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 7.17.13 or later
- —upgrade to 7.17.13 or later
Is CVE-2023-31418 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.2%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 7.17.13, >= 8.0.0, < 8.8.3
- from 0, < 7.17.13
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |