CVE-2021-22144

elasticsearch: uncontrolled recursion in Grok parser

Published Jul 26, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 2.4% KEV · Not listed
Description
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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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1526 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-3393-hvrj-w7v3 Denial of Service in Elasticsearch
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
elastic
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 6:37 PM
Reserved
Jan 4, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 26, 2021, 12:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:36 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jul 7, 2021, 12:00 AM