Elastic Elasticsearch DoS Vulnerability (ESA-2022-07)
🗓️ 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-23712 | 6 Jun 202218:15 | – | attackerkb | |
| Security Bulletin: Multiple security vulnerabilities are addressed with IBM Cloud Pak for Business Automation iFixes for June 2022 | 26 Jul 202207:54 | – | ibm | |
| The vulnerability of the Elasticsearch search system, related to insufficient checking of exceptional states, allows a violator to trigger a service failure. | 6 Jul 202200:00 | – | bdu_fstec | |
| CVE-2022-23712 affecting package rubygem-elasticsearch 8.2.0-1 | 14 Jul 202220:59 | – | cbl_mariner | |
| CVE-2022-23712 | 6 Jun 202222:30 | – | circl | |
| Elasticsearch 安全漏洞 | 6 Jun 202200:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| Elasticsearch Denial of Service Vulnerability | 8 Jun 202200:00 | – | cnvd | |
| CVE-2022-23712 | 6 Jun 202217:07 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2022-23712 | 6 Jun 202217:07 | – | cvelist | |
| Elastic Stack 7.17.4 and 8.2.1 Security Update | 24 May 202216:55 | – | elastic |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2022 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:elastic:elasticsearch";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.148221");
script_version("2025-09-03T08:26:15+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-03 08:26:15 +0000 (Wed, 03 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2022-06-07 06:35:45 +0000 (Tue, 07 Jun 2022)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2022-06-14 15:12:00 +0000 (Tue, 14 Jun 2022)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2022-23712");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Elastic Elasticsearch DoS Vulnerability (ESA-2022-07)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_elastic_elasticsearch_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("elastic/elasticsearch/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Elastic Elasticsearch is prone to a denial of service (DoS)
vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Using this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could
forcibly shut down an Elasticsearch node with a specifically formatted network request.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Elastic Elasticsearch version 8.0.0 through 8.2.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 8.2.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-4-and-8-2-1-security-update/305530");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (isnull(port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE)))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "8.0.0", test_version2: "8.2.0")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.2.1", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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CVSS 25
CVSS 3.17.5
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