CVE-2021-22144
In Elasticsearch versions before 7.13.3 and 6.8.17 an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service attack was identified in the Elasticsearch Grok parser. A user with
02 Description
In Elasticsearch versions before 7.13.3 and 6.8.17 an uncontrolled recursion vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service attack was identified in the Elasticsearch Grok parser. A user with
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.44% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.8% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2021-07-26 11:48Z5 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-03 18:37Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2021-01-04
- Assigning CNA
- elastic
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-674Uncontrolled RecursionClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 09ed1d3cd281ff7e859c9807e83349f401443045c5b0273d847d1ff39fe15202
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.oracle.comhttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- discuss.elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-13-3-and-6-8-17-security-update/278100
- security.netapp.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0006/
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- elasticsearch No fix yet
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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