Elasticsearch Node Crash via Deeply Nested Pipeline (CVE-2024-23450)
CVE-2024-23450 Published on March 27, 2024
Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where processing a document in a deeply nested pipeline on an ingest node could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-23450 is exploitable with network access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2024-23450 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-23450
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Affected Versions
Elasticsearch:- Version 7.0.0 and below 7.17.19 is affected.
- Version 8.0.0 and below 8.13.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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