CVE-2024-23450 Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-23450?

CVE-2024-23450 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 27 Mar 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-23450?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch and elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Elasticsearch.

How do I fix CVE-2024-23450?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to a fixed version for your release line: 7.17.19 or 8.13.0.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-23450 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-23450 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Elasticsearch

• CVE-2015-1427 Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-3120 Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2015-5377 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-72649 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch Leading to Remote Code Execution High 8.8
• CVE-2026-72642 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the Elasticsearch Machine Learning Native Inference Process High 8.8

All Elastic Elasticsearch vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-elasticsearch-2024-23450, GHSA-w5gg-2q56-6h4f, MINI-4jhj-mfgv-7c44, MINI-r7gx-95fw-r5cm, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-23450.