MEDIUM 6.5 Microsoft

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 the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could create a malicious Grok query that will crash the Elasticsearch node.

Microsoft Security Update 2021-Jul: 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 the ability to submit arbitrary queries to Elasticsearch could create a malicious Grok query that will crash the Elasticsearch node.

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Published: 2021-07-13 · Source: Microsoft · Feed updated: 2026-10-01
This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.5 was published on 2021-07-13 via Microsoft. Affected: cm1 rubygem-elasticsearch 8.2.0-1 on CBL Mariner 1.0.
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