Description
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.
Remediation
References
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-9-0-7-17-13-security-update/343616
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231130-0005/
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
Related Vulnerabilities
CVE-2022-41241 Vulnerability in maven package net.praqma:rqm-plugin
CVE-2017-5635 Vulnerability in maven package org.apache.nifi:nifi-web-security
CVE-2015-8320 Vulnerability in npm package cordova-android
CVE-2022-34180 Vulnerability in maven package org.jenkins-ci.plugins:embeddable-build-status
CVE-2011-4605 Vulnerability in maven package org.jboss.naming:jnpserver