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Advisory record · GHSA-jgx4-7v3v-vwfm

Elasticsearch allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash

CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.0065 · 51st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 21 Jan 2025, 12:30 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven<7.17.21 || >=8.0.0, <8.13.37.17.21, 8.13.3
Identifiers
GHSA-jgx4-7v3v-vwfm · BIT-elasticsearch-2024-43709 · CVE-2024-43709
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-770
Tags
Published
21 Jan 2025
Updated
21 Feb 2025

Machine-written summary

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

Elasticsearch versions before 7.17.21 and from 8.0.0 before 8.13.3 are affected. An attacker who can send a specially crafted query that uses an SQL function can trigger unbounded resource allocation, causing an OutOfMemoryError and a crash. Upgrade to 7.17.21 or 8.13.3, or later.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (elastic)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0065, the 51st percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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