CVE-2024-23449CWE-248

Elasticsearch Uncaught Exception

Medium · published March 29, 2024

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
51.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

An uncaught exception in Elasticsearch >= 8.4.0 and < 8.11.1 occurs when an encrypted PDF is passed to an attachment processor through the REST API. The Elasticsearch ingest node that attempts to parse the PDF file will crash. This does not happen with password-protected PDF files or with unencrypted PDF files.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00681 · 51.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-248 · Uncaught Exception
Published
2024-03-29T11:12Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 29 MAR 11:12Z
    Elasticsearch Uncaught Exception
    cvelistv5