Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion') Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [,7.17.13) [8.0.0,8.9.0)
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.07% (31st
percentile)
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- published 31 Oct 2023
- disclosed 26 Oct 2023
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 26 Oct 2023
CVE-2023-31418 Open this link in a new tabHow 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.
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