CVE-2024-23450 (GCVE-0-2024-23450)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-03-27 17:03 – Updated: 2025-02-13 17:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
Summary
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where processing a document in a deeply nested pipeline on an ingest node could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash.
Severity
4.9 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-07-16 01:36 UTC
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Elasticsearch |
Affected:
7.0.0 , < 7.17.19
(semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , < 8.13.0 (semver) |
guessed |
Date Public
2024-03-27 16:55
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