GHSA-3393-hvrj-w7v3

Denial of Service in Elasticsearch

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2021-22144
Aliases
BIT-elasticsearch-2021-22144
CVSS_V3
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

In Elasticsearch versions before 7.13.3 and 6.8.17 an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service attack was identified in the Elasticsearch Grok parser. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could create a malicious Grok query that will crash the Elasticsearch node.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Maven · org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchintroduced 0, fixed 6.8.17
Maven · org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchintroduced 7.0.0-alpha1, fixed 7.13.3

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database