Elasticsearch up to 7.17.18/8.12.x Pipeline resource consumption

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A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Elasticsearch up to 7.17.18/8.12.x. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Pipeline Handler. This manipulation causes resource consumption. This vulnerability is registered as CVE-2024-23450. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Elasticsearch up to 7.17.18/8.12.x. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Pipeline Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-23450 since 01/16/2024. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 246933 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-23450), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 7.17.19 or 8.13.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (246933). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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• Elasticsearch

Version

• 7.17.0
• 7.17.1
• 7.17.2
• 7.17.3
• 7.17.4
• 7.17.5
• 7.17.6
• 7.17.7
• 7.17.8
• 7.17.9
• 7.17.10
• 7.17.11
• 7.17.12
• 7.17.13
• 7.17.14
• 7.17.15
• 7.17.16
• 7.17.17
• 7.17.18
• 8.0
• 8.1
• 8.2
• 8.3
• 8.4
• 8.5
• 8.6
• 8.7
• 8.8
• 8.9
• 8.10
• 8.11
• 8.12

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• free

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