What is CVE-2024-23449?

CVE-2024-23449 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-03-29.

How severe is CVE-2024-23449?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch

CVE-2024-23449

An uncaught exception in Elasticsearch >= 8.4.0 and < 8.11.1 occurs when an encrypted PDF is passed to an attachment processor through the REST API. The Elasticsearch ingest node that attempts to parse the PDF file will crash. This does no…

EPSS: 0.000 (14.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch — versions 8.4.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-248

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-11-1-security-update-esa-2024-05/356458

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-23449?: CVE-2024-23449 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under CWE-248. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-03-29.
How severe is CVE-2024-23449?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.