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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2021-22144

In Elasticsearch versions before 7.13.3 and 6.8.17 an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service attack was identified in the Elasticsearch Grok parser.

MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 2.18%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (2.18%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

In Elasticsearch versions before 7.13.3 and 6.8.17 an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service attack was identified in the Elasticsearch Grok parser. A user with the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could create a malicious Grok query that will crash the Elasticsearch node.

CVSS 3.1
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
2.18% probability · 81th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-674
Affected
elastic/elasticsearch · oracle/communications cloud native core automated test suite
Source
security@elastic.co

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.