An issue has been identified with how Elasticsearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an Elasticsearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests. The issue was identified by Elastic Engineering and we have no indication that the issue is known or that it is being exploited in the wild.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published: 2023-10-26T17:36:42.723Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T14:53:30.904Z

Reserved: 2023-04-27T18:54:56.704Z

Link: CVE-2023-31418

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-10-26T18:15:08.587

Modified: 2023-11-30T22:15:07.810

Link: CVE-2023-31418

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2023-10-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-31418 - Bugzilla