vulnerability

Elastic Elasticsearch: CVE-2024-43709: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jan 21, 2025
Added
May 13, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

elastic-elasticsearch-upgrade-latest
Title
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