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OpenSearch StackOverflow vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 30, 2023 in opensearch-project/OpenSearch • Updated Dec 1, 2023

Package

maven org.opensearch:opensearch (Maven)

Affected versions

< 1.3.14
>= 2.0.0, < 2.11.1

Patched versions

1.3.14
2.11.1

Description

Impact

A flaw was discovered in OpenSearch, affecting the _search API that allowed a specially crafted query string to cause a Stack Overflow and ultimately a Denial of Service.

The issue was identified by Elastic Engineering and corresponds to security advisory ESA-2023-14 (CVE-2023-31419).

Mitigation

Versions 1.3.14 and 2.11.1 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 aws-security@amazon.com. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

References

@CEHENKLE CEHENKLE published to opensearch-project/OpenSearch Nov 30, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 1, 2023
Reviewed Dec 1, 2023
Last updated Dec 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate
6.5
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

No known CVE

GHSA ID

GHSA-6g3j-p5g6-992f

Source code

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