UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31418

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2023-31418

    Published: 26 Oct 2023Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2023-31418

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2023-31418, https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-0-7-17-13-security-update/343616, https://www.elastic.co/community/security, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-31418

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: elasticsearch

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+dfsg-3?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    1.6.2+dfsg-1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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