Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

OpenSearch uncontrolled resource consumption

Impact

An issue has been identified with how OpenSearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an OpenSearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests.

The issue was identified by Elastic Engineering and corresponds to security advisory ESA-2023-13 (CVE-2023-31418).

Mitigation

Versions 1.3.14 and 2.11.0 contain a fix for this issue.

For more information

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CVSS v3:

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

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