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HistoryOct 17, 2023 - 2:24 p.m.

OpenSearch uncontrolled resource consumption

2023-10-1714:24:48
CWE-400
GitHub Advisory Database
github.com
20
opensearch
http layer
resource consumption
unauthenticated user
outofmemory error
elastic engineering
security advisory
fix
aws/amazon security
vulnerability reporting.

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

34.7%

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 toΒ [email protected]. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

Affected configurations

Vulners
Node
org.opensearch.pluginopensearch-securityRange2.0.0.0–2.11.0.0
OR
org.opensearch.pluginopensearch-securityRange<1.3.14.0
VendorProductVersionCPE
org.opensearch.pluginopensearch-security*cpe:2.3:a:org.opensearch.plugin:opensearch-security:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

34.7%