CVE-2024-23450 json
Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
published 2024-03-27 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23450 , EUVD-2024-1021 , GHSA-w5gg-2q56-6h4f
- cvss
- 4.9
- version 3.1, CNA
- cisa kev
- Not listed
- not in CISA's catalog
- epss
- 1.3%
- EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 69%
- public exploits
- 0
- none known
Summary
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.
Patch / fix
- maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 7.17.19, 8.13.0
- bitnami elasticsearch 7.17.19, 8.13.0
- Elastic Elasticsearch 7.17.19, 8.13.0
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-2024-23450 updated cvss 4.9
elasticsearch: Possible denial of service when processing documents in a deeply nested pipeline
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Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
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Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/fluentd-rhel8, openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 python3-panko, openstack-panko-api, openstack-panko-common Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 python3-panko, openstack-panko-api, openstack-panko-commonnot 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
CISA SSVC
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- partial
- Assessed
- 2 y ago
Exploit prediction
1.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 69% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).
CVSS scores
| assigned by | version | score | vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.1 | 4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| GitHub | 3.1 | 4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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, <7.17.19 >=8.0.0, <8.13.0 |
7.17.19 8.13.0 |
| bitnami | elasticsearch | >=7.0.0, <7.17.19 >=8.0.0, <8.13.0 |
7.17.19 8.13.0 |
Affected products
- Elastic Elasticsearch
Classification
- Weakness
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- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
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discuss.elastic.co
/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-19-security-update-esa-2024-06/356314
web, vendor-advisory, advisory
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elastic.co
/community/security
web, vendor-advisory, advisory
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security.netapp.com
/advisory/ntap-20240517-0010/
third-party-advisory, advisory
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nvd.nist.gov
/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23450
advisory, web
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github.com
/elastic/elasticsearch
package
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security.netapp.com
/advisory/ntap-20240517-0010
web
Sources
- CVE List CVE-2024-23450
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-w5gg-2q56-6h4f
- NVD CVE-2024-23450
- OSV BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23450
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.
CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.