Input validation error in Elasticsearch - CVE-2023-46673

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Input validation error in Elasticsearch - CVE-2023-46673

Published: November 22, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU83419
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2023-46673
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Elasticsearch
Software vendor:
Elastic Stack

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the Simulate Pipeline API. A remote user can pass malformed scripts to the script processor of an Ingest Pipeline and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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