PT-2023-6895 · Elastic · Elasticsearch

Published 2023-10-26 · Updated 2024-03-06 · CVE-2023-31418

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Elasticsearch (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to how Elasticsearch handles 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. There is no indication that the issue is known or that it is being exploited in the wild.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

BDU:2023-07913

BIT-ELASTICSEARCH-2023-31418

CVE-2023-31418

GHSA-2CQF-6XV9-F22W

Affected Products

Elasticsearch

References · 17

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-0-7-17-13-security-update/343616 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-31418 · Security Note
• https://elastic.co/community/security · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-31418 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-2cqf-6xv9-f22w · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-31418 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-31418 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-elasticsearch-2023-31418 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31418 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2023-07913 · Security Note
• https://t.me/cvenotify/60031 · Telegram Post
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-31418 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/72999 · Telegram Post
• https://vuldb.com/ru/?id.243637 · Note
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0005 · Note