SB2023092233 - Remote denial of service in Elasticsearch and Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Published: September 22, 2023
Security Bulletin ID
SB2023092233
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31418)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send specially crafted HTTP requests to the application, cause an OutOfMemory error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.