A flaw in Elasticsearch allows a low-privileged authenticated user who can index documents to submit a single small document containing a crafted user-supplied input. Processing one such document occupies a worker thread from a bounded pool for a disproportionate amount of time, degrading the availability of indexing operations on the affected node.
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:maven:*:*"
],
"severity": "Medium"
}