CVE-2023-31419 (GCVE-0-2023-31419)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-26 17:06 – Updated: 2025-02-13 16:50
VLAI
Title
Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability
Summary
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting the _search API that allowed a specially crafted query string to cause a Stack Overflow and ultimately a Denial of Service.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based Buffer Overflow
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Elastic Elasticsearch Affected: 7.0.0 , < 7.17.12 (semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , < 8.9.0 (semver)
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Date Public
2023-09-18 20:40
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