Headline
GHSA-8wx3-324g-w4qq: OpenSearch uncontrolled resource consumption
Impact
An issue has been identified with how OpenSearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an OpenSearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests.
The issue was identified by Elastic Engineering and corresponds to security advisory ESA-2023-13 (CVE-2023-31418).
Mitigation
Versions 1.3.14 and 2.11.0 contain a fix for this issue.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please contact AWS/Amazon Security via our issue reporting page (https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/) or directly via email to [email protected]. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.
- GitHub Advisory Database
- GitHub Reviewed
- GHSA-8wx3-324g-w4qq
OpenSearch uncontrolled resource consumption
Package
maven org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security (Maven)
Affected versions
< 1.3.14.0
>= 2.0.0.0, < 2.11.0.0
Patched versions
1.3.14.0
2.11.0.0
Impact
An issue has been identified with how OpenSearch handled incoming requests on the HTTP layer. An unauthenticated user could force an OpenSearch node to exit with an OutOfMemory error by sending a moderate number of malformed HTTP requests.
The issue was identified by Elastic Engineering and corresponds to security advisory ESA-2023-13 (CVE-2023-31418).
Mitigation
Versions 1.3.14 and 2.11.0 contain a fix for this issue.
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory, please contact AWS/Amazon Security via our issue reporting page (https://aws.amazon.com/security/vulnerability-reporting/) or directly via email to [email protected]. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.
References
- GHSA-8wx3-324g-w4qq
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
Oct 17, 2023