CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedElasticsearch is vulnerable to a denial of service due to uncontrolled recursion triggered by specially crafted search requests from low-privileged authenticated users with read-level index access. This flaw can lead to fatal errors that either completely disrupt service in single-node deployments or cause repeated node restarts and degraded performance in multi-node clusters. Organizations using Elasticsearch, particularly those with multi-node setups, should prioritize addressing this vulnerability to maintain service availability and stability.
Original NVD Description
Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted search request submitted by a low-privileged authenticated user. A user with read-level index access can submit a request that triggers unbounded recursive processing within the Elasticsearch query evaluation component, causing a fatal error that terminates the affected node. In single-node deployments, this results in complete service outage; in multi-node clusters, it causes repeated node restarts and sustained availability degradation.
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