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CVE-2023-31419

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-31419 is a high-severity denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Elasticsearch, where a specially crafted query string to the _search API can trigger a stack overflow. With a CVSS score of 7.5, it is network-exploitable with low attack complexity and no user interaction required, leading to high availability impact. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.0.0, <= 7.17.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.17.12CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.9.0CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.5MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
60.68%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.6068 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 51,506 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchFixed in: 7.17.13
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchFixed in: 8.9.1
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-qwrx-45xf-jjf7medium

Elasticsearch vulnerable to stack overflow in the search API

Oct 26, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-31419Moderate

elasticsearch: StackOverflow vulnerability

Oct 26, 2023

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/elasticsearch-8-9-1-7-17-13-security-update/343297
Vendor Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20231116-0010
Third Party Advisory
elastic.co / community/security
Vendor Advisory