Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [,7.17.13) [8.0.0,8.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGELASTICSEARCH-6039899
  • published 31 Oct 2023
  • disclosed 26 Oct 2023
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to version 7.17.13, 8.9.0 or higher.

Overview

org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch is a Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') when handling incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An attacker can force a node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests.

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

7.5 high