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CVE-2023-46673

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-46673 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Elasticsearch, where a malformed script within an Ingest Pipeline can lead to a node crash when the Simulate Pipeline API is invoked. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating a network-exploitable flaw with low attack complexity and high availability impact, requiring no user interaction or privileges. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 7.0.0, < 7.17.14CPE match
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 8.10.3CPE 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
0.84%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0084 is in the 29th percentile among its peer group of 51,551 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: 7.17.14
mavenpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchFixed in: 8.10.3
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Quay 3Fixed in: quay/quay-rhel8

Vendor Advisories (2)

mavenGHSA-285m-vhfq-xx4hmedium

Elasticsearch Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Nov 22, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-46673Moderate

elasticsearch: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Nov 22, 2023

References

discuss.elastic.co / t/elasticsearch-7-17-14-8-10-3-security-update-esa-2023-24/347708
Vendor Advisory
elastic.co / community/security
Vendor Advisory