CVE-2023-31419 (GCVE-0-2023-31419)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-26 17:06
Modified
2025-02-13 16:50
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Summary
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting the _search API that allowed a specially crafted query string to cause a Stack Overflow and ultimately a Denial of Service.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elasticsearch Version: 7.0.0   ≤
Version: 8.0.0   ≤
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