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Elastic Elasticsearch DoS Vulnerability (ESA-2022-07)

🗓️ 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2022 Greenbone AGType 
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Elasticsearch DoS Vulnerability (ESA-2022-07) affects versions 8.0.0 to 8.2.

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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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03 Sep 2025 00:00Current
7.4High risk
Vulners AI Score7.4
CVSS 25
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EPSS0.07374
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