CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedElasticsearch is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack due to improper resource allocation, allowing users with the *manage_index_templates* privilege to register multiple metadata resources that, while individually limited, can collectively exhaust system memory. This can lead to out-of-memory errors and cause the affected node to fail. Organizations utilizing Elasticsearch should prioritize this vulnerability to prevent potential service disruptions.
Original NVD Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to Denial of Service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). Elasticsearch enforces a size limit on the user-supplied metadata field for each individual template resource, but does not limit the total memory used when multiple such resources are retrieved together. A user holding the *manage_index_templates* cluster privilege can register multiple resources each within the individual limit. Retrieving them together materializes all of their metadata values in memory at once, exhausting available heap and causing the affected node to fail with an out-of-memory error, resulting in a denial of service.
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