Deserialization in Elastic Elasticsearch

CVE-2023-46674

An issue was identified that allowed the unsafe deserialization of java objects from hadoop or spark configuration properties that could have been modified by authenticated users. Elastic would like to thank Yakov Shafranovich, with Amazon Web Services for reporting this issue.

Vulnerability class: Insecure Deserialization

Published · last modified .

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.0 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (13.9th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 14th percentile — 13.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2023-46674: held from 0.002 to 0.002.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-46674?
CVE-2023-46674 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Deserialization of Untrusted Data. CVSS score: 6.0/10. Published 2023-12-05.
How severe is CVE-2023-46674?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.0 out of 10.