CVE-2024-43709

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.

Published: Jan 21, 2025
Updated: Jun 30, 2025
CVE: CVE-2024-43709
GHSA: GHSA-jgx4-7v3v-vwfm
Severity: Medium
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Unknown
Score:
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWEs:

CWE-770

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
org.elasticsearch / elasticsearch	-	7.17.21
org.elasticsearch / elasticsearch	8.0.0	8.13.3
elastic / elasticsearch	7.17.0	7.17.21
elastic / elasticsearch	8.0.0	8.13.3

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-21-and-8-13-3-security-update-esa-2024-25/373442
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250221-0007
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250221-0007/

Vulnerability Database

289,599

CVE-2024-43709