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CVE-2024-23450: Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-03-27 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

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.

Affected products

• Elasticsearch: from 7.0.0 before 7.17.19; from 8.0.0 before 8.13.0 — fixed in 7.17.19, 8.13.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Elasticsearch 7.17.19, 8.13.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-19-security-update-esa-2024-06/356314
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240517-0010/
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-13-0-7-17-19-security-update-esa-2024-06/356314
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240517-0010/
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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