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CVE-2021-22144GHSA-3393-HVRJ-W7V3BIT-ELASTICSEARCH-2021-22144

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

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published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.8.17, 7.13.3
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven

    fixed in 6.8.17

  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven

    From 7.0.0-alpha1 · fixed in 7.13.3

References 3

oracle.com

discuss.elastic.co

security.netapp.com