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high 7.5

CVE-2022-23712 json

Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions in Elasticsearch

published 4y ago modified 2mo ago also BIT-elasticsearch-2022-23712 , EUVD-2022-6175 , GHSA-wh6w-69xc-5rq5

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
7.6%
EPSS 7.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 8.2.1
  • bitnami elasticsearch 8.2.1
  • elastic elasticsearch 8.2.1

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-23712 updated cvss 7.5

elasticsearch: DoS via a specifically formatted network request

  • Red Hat Decision Manager 7 elasticsearch
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 elasticsearch
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Process Automation 7 elasticsearch
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat build of Quarkus elasticsearch Red Hat Data Grid 8 elasticsearch Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 grafana, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, grafana-mysql, grafana-selinux, grafana-graphite, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 grafana, grafana-selinux Red Hat Fuse 7 elasticsearch Red Hat Integration Camel Quarkus 1 elasticsearch
    +7 more products
    Red Hat Integration Data Virtualisation Operator elasticsearch Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 elasticsearch Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 elasticsearch Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack elasticsearc Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 elasticsearch Red Hat Service Telemetry Framework 1.3 for RHEL 8 stf/sg-core-rhel8 Red Hat Service Telemetry Framework 1.4 for RHEL 8 stf/sg-core-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

7.55% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch
>=8.0.0, <8.2.1
8.2.1
bitnami elasticsearch
>=8.0.0, <8.2.1
8.2.1

Affected products

  • Elastic elasticsearch

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-754 Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions

References

Sources

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