GMS-2023-5381: OpenSearch StackOverflow vulnerability

December 1, 2023

Impact

A flaw was discovered in OpenSearch, affecting the _search API that allowed a specially crafted query string to cause a Stack Overflow and ultimately a Denial of Service.

The issue was identified by Elastic Engineering and corresponds to security advisory ESA-2023-14 (CVE-2023-31419).

Mitigation

Versions 1.3.14 and 2.11.1 contain a fix for this issue.

For more information

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Code Behaviors & Features

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