vulnerability

Elastic Elasticsearch: CVE-2021-22144: Uncontrolled Recursion

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 26, 2021
Added
May 13, 2025
Modified
May 28, 2025

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.

Solution

elastic-elasticsearch-upgrade-latest
Title
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