Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in Elasticsearch

published 2022-06-06 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-elasticsearch-2022-23712 , EUVD-2022-6175 , GHSA-wh6w-69xc-5rq5

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 7.5%; EPSS 7.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits: 0; none known

A Denial of Service flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch. Using this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could forcibly shut down an Elasticsearch node with a specifically formatted network request.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 8.2.1
bitnami elasticsearch 8.2.1
elastic elasticsearch 8.2.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-23712 updated 2026-11-04 cvss 7.5

elasticsearch: DoS via a specifically formatted network request

Red Hat Decision Manager 7 elasticsearch
affected: no fix available
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 elasticsearch
affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
Red Hat Process Automation 7 elasticsearch
affected: no fix available
Red Hat build of Quarkus elasticsearch Red Hat Data Grid 8 elasticsearch Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grafana, grafana-selinux Red Hat Fuse 7 elasticsearch Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 elasticsearch

+7 more productsfewer

Red Hat Integration Data Virtualisation Operator elasticsearch Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 elasticsearch Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 elasticsearch Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack elasticsearc Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 elasticsearch Red Hat Service Telemetry Framework 1.3 for RHEL 8 stf/sg-core-rhel8 Red Hat Service Telemetry Framework 1.4 for RHEL 8 stf/sg-core-rhel8

not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
GitHub	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD	2.0	5.0	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
maven	org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch	>=8.0.0, <8.2.1	8.2.1
bitnami	elasticsearch	>=8.0.0, <8.2.1	8.2.1

Affected products

Elastic elasticsearch

Classification

Weakness

CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

References

elastic.co /community/security/
vendor-advisory, advisory
discuss.elastic.co /t/elastic-stack-7-17-4-and-8-2-1-security-update/305530
web, release-notes, vendor-advisory, advisory
security.netapp.com /advisory/ntap-20220707-0010/
third-party-advisory, advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23712
advisory, web
github.com /elastic/elasticsearch
package
security.netapp.com /advisory/ntap-20220707-0010
web
elastic.co /community/security
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

Summary