High severity · published Jun 6, 2022
CVE-2022-23712
A Denial of Service flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch
7.5
CVSS
7.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A Denial of Service flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch. Using this vulnerability, an unauthenticated attacker could forcibly shut down an Elasticsearch node with a specifically formatted network request.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)7.6% · higher than 94% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
EL
Elasticsearch · Elastic
8.0.0 before 8.2.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23712
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23712
Release Notes
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-4-and-8-2-1-security-update/305530
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220707-0010/
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
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