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Elastic Elasticsearch DoS Vulnerability (ESA-2021-15)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Web application abuses

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

5.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

Elasticsearch is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

An uncontrolled recursion vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service attack was identified in the Elasticsearch Grok parser. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could create a malicious Grok query that will crash the Elasticsearch node.

Affected Software

Affected Software

Elasticsearch prior to version 6.8.17 and 7.x prior to 7.13.3.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version 6.8.17, 7.13.3 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)