What is CVE-2024-23450?

CVE-2024-23450 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-03-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-23450?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-23450 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Elastic Elasticsearch

CVE-2024-23450

A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where processing a document in a deeply nested pipeline on an ingest node could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.011 (78.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch — versions 7.0.0, 8.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

Bhanunamikaze/VaktScan

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-23450?: CVE-2024-23450 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-03-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-23450?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-23450 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.