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Elasticsearch Uncaught Exception leading to crash

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Mar 29, 2024 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 29, 2024

Package

maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)

Affected versions

>= 8.4.0, < 8.11.1

Patched versions

8.11.1

Description

An uncaught exception in Elasticsearch >= 8.4.0 and < 8.11.1 occurs when an encrypted PDF is passed to an attachment processor through the REST API. The Elasticsearch ingest node that attempts to parse the PDF file will crash. This does not happen with password-protected PDF files or with unencrypted PDF files.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 29, 2024
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Mar 29, 2024
Reviewed Mar 29, 2024
Last updated Mar 29, 2024

Severity

Moderate
4.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2024-23449

GHSA ID

GHSA-pw39-f3m5-cxfc

Source code

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