CVE details
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.
- Score
- 6.5 medium
- Published
- 2021-07-26
- Links
- NVD · cve.org · Report wrong data
Matched ports (1)
| Port | Package | Version | Status | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| textproc/py-elasticsearch6 | py312-elasticsearch6 | 6.8.2_2 | unaddressed | sunpoet@FreeBSD.org |
Template for a VuXML entry
Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.
<vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
<topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
<affects>
<package>
<name>py312-elasticsearch6</name>
<range><lt>6.8.17</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>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.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2021-22144</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22144</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2021-07-26</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-26</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>