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.

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

EPSS: 0.002 (15.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch
Elastic Elasticsearch-hadoop — versions 1.3.0, 8.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-502 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data

References

security@elastic.co (Vendor Advisory)

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.