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ubuntu-cve-2024-43709

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2025-01-21 11:15

Modified

2025-10-24 05:11

Summary

Details

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Elasticsearch can lead to an OutOfMemoryError exception resulting in a crash via a specially crafted query using an SQL function.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

7.5 (High)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-43709	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-43709	REPORT
	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-2…	REPORT

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        "binaries": [
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  "modified": "2025-10-24T05:11:48Z",
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  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
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}

CVE-2024-43709 (GCVE-0-2024-43709)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-21 11:00 – Updated: 2025-02-21 18:03

Title

Elasticsearch allocation of resources without limits or throttling leads to crash

Summary

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Elasticsearch can lead to an OutOfMemoryError exception resulting in a crash via a specially crafted query using an SQL function.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)

CWE

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Assigner

elastic

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-2…
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2025022…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Elasticsearch	Affected: 7.17.0, 8.0.0 , < 7.17.21, 8.13.3 (semver)

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2024-43709 (GCVE-0-2024-43709)

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