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.
The product does not properly control the amount of recursion that takes place, consuming excessive resources, such as allocated memory or the program stack.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elasticsearch | Elastic | * | 6.8.17 (excluding) |
| Elasticsearch | Elastic | 7.0.0 (including) | 7.13.3 (excluding) |