CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-23449

Uncaught Exception

Published: Mar 29, 2024 | Modified: Mar 29, 2024

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

4.3 MODERATE

Ubuntu

MEDIUM

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-23449
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/248.html

An uncaught exception in Elasticsearch >= 8.4.0 and < 8.11.1 occurs when an encrypted PDF is passed to an attachment processor through the REST API. The Elasticsearch ingest node that attempts to parse the PDF file will crash. This does not happen with password-protected PDF files or with unencrypted PDF files.

Weakness

An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-11-1-security-update-esa-2024-05/356458

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