Elasticsearch Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

published 2023-11-22 2 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-elasticsearch-2023-46673 , EUVD-2023-2844 , GHSA-285m-vhfq-xx4h

cvss: 6.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits: 0; none known

It was identified that malformed scripts used in the script processor of an Ingest Pipeline could cause an Elasticsearch node to crash when calling the Simulate Pipeline API.

Patch / fix

fixed in 3

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 7.17.14, 8.10.3
bitnami elasticsearch 7.17.14, 8.10.3
Elastic Elasticsearch 7.17.14, 8.10.3

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-2023-46673 updated 2026-07-03 cvss 7.5

elasticsearch: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
affected: workaround, no fix available “No mitigation is yet available for this flaw.”
Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift elasticsearch6-container, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel8-operator
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

0.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub	3.1	6.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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
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	>=7.0.0, <7.17.14 >=8.0.0, <8.10.3	7.17.14 8.10.3
bitnami	elasticsearch	>=7.0.0, <7.17.14 >=8.0.0, <8.10.3	7.17.14 8.10.3

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch

Classification

Weakness

CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

References

discuss.elastic.co /t/elasticsearch-7-17-14-8-10-3-security-update-esa-2023-24/347708
web, vendor-advisory, advisory
elastic.co /community/security
web, vendor-advisory, advisory
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46673
advisory, web
github.com /elastic/elasticsearch
package

Sources

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Summary