Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch for Apache Hadoop - CVE-2023-46674

 

Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch for Apache Hadoop - CVE-2023-46674

Published: December 6, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU83893
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-46674
CWE-ID: CWE-502
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to insecure input validation when processing serialized data in hadoop or spark configuration properties. A remote user can update configuration properties and execute arbitrary code on the target system.



Affected software

Elasticsearch for Apache Hadoop
watsonx.data
Watson CP4D Data Stores

How to mitigate CVE-2023-46674

Install updates from vendor's website.

Elasticsearch for Apache Hadoop - addressed in versions 7.17.11, 8.9.0
watsonx.data - update to 2.0.2
Watson CP4D Data Stores - update to 5.0

External References

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