GHSA-2cqf-6xv9-f22w: org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (CVE-2023-31418)

Elasticsearch vulnerable to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.021 · 81st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 26 Oct 2023, 18:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch	Maven	<7.17.13 \|\| >=8.0.0, <8.9.0	7.17.13, 8.9.0

Identifiers

GHSA-2cqf-6xv9-f22w · BIT-elasticsearch-2023-31418 · CVE-2023-31418

Weakness (CWE)

CWE-400

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Elasticsearch (Maven package org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch) versions before 7.17.13 and from 8.0.0 before 8.9.0 are vulnerable. An unauthenticated remote user can send a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests to force a node to exit with an OutOfMemory error. Upgrade to 7.17.13 or 8.9.0 or later. No workaround is listed.

Written 2 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.5	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	CNA (elastic)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.021, the 81st percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:18 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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