Resource exhaustion in Elasticsearch and Elastic Cloud Enterprise - CVE-2023-31418
Published: September 22, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU81073
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-31418
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Elasticsearch
Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Elasticsearch
Elastic Cloud Enterprise
Software vendor:
Elastic Stack
Elastic Stack
Description
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 updates from vendor's website.