Resource exhaustion in Elasticsearch - CVE-2024-43709

 

Resource exhaustion in Elasticsearch - CVE-2024-43709

Published: January 21, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU103109
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-43709
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Elastic Stack
Affected software:
Elasticsearch

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote user can send a specially crafted query using an SQL function, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


How to mitigate CVE-2024-43709

Install updates from vendor's website.

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