CVE-2024-43709

Elasticsearch allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Jan 21, 2025
Updated: Feb 21, 2025
Reserved: Aug 15, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ElasticsearchElastic	7.17.0, 8.0.0 to before 7.17.21, 8.13.3Affected

References

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/

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