Elasticsearch Ingest Node Crashes When Parsing Encrypted PDFs
CVE-2024-23449

5.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Elastic
Status
Elasticsearch
Vendor
CVE Published:
29 March 2024

What is CVE-2024-23449?

An uncaught exception in Elasticsearch >= 8.4.0 and < 8.11.1 occurs when an encrypted PDF is passed to an attachment processor through the REST API. The Elasticsearch ingest node that attempts to parse the PDF file will crash. This does not happen with password-protected PDF files or with unencrypted PDF files.

Affected Version(s)

Elasticsearch 8.4.0 < 8.11.1

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-11-1-securit...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
5.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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