CVE catalog
CVE-2024-23449
UBUNTU-CVE-2024-23449
- Severity
- Medium · CVSS 4.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L - Published
- Updated
- Source
- [NVD] · [CVE record]
- EPSS
- 0.68% · Oct 25, 2026
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.
Vulnerable and fixed packages
Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.
| Distribution | Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu | elasticsearch | 16.04 | 1.6.2+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | elasticsearch | 16.04 | 1.7.3+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | elasticsearch | 16.04 | 1.7.3+dfsg-2 | vulnerable |
| Ubuntu | elasticsearch | 16.04 | 1.7.3+dfsg-3 | vulnerable |
Fixed-version evidence
OpenFactory catalog packages
No matching packages in this catalog.
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