7.5

CVE-2023-31418: elastic elastic_cloud_enterprise Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-31418CGA-5v2q-2g9w-rv47CGA-xrpq-hc35-4rwr
Published 26-10-2023Last modified 13-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-31418 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in elastic elastic_cloud_enterprise. EPSS estimates a 2.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80.9% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
2.05%
0%100%
Low · +0.41 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 2
CGA-2RH8-VHWQ-M8FMCGA-R5W5-XMQ4-V7JM

Timeline

  1. 26-10-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

6 scores · 6 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

2.05%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

81%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.41 pp

From 1.64% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
2.05%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Elastic2 products
Chainguard1 product
  • trinoAll versions (No fix recorded)
Org.elasticsearch1 product
  • elasticsearch< 7.17.13 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.9.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • elasticsearchAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wolfi1 product
  • trinoAll versions (No fix recorded)

5 vendors · 6 products

References

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