CVE-2024-43709 (GCVE-0-2024-43709)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-01-21 11:00
Modified
2025-02-21 18:03
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Elasticsearch can lead to an OutOfMemoryError exception resulting in a crash via a specially crafted query using an SQL function.
References
bressers@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-21-and-8-13-3-security-update-esa-2024-25/373442Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250221-0007/
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elasticsearch Version: 7.17.0, 8.0.0   ≤
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