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Vulnerability details: VCID-ab1q-2jbj-jqgp
Vulnerability ID VCID-ab1q-2jbj-jqgp
Aliases CVE-2023-46673
GHSA-285m-vhfq-xx4h
Summary Elasticsearch Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions It was identified that malformed scripts used in the script processor of an Ingest Pipeline could cause an Elasticsearch node to crash when calling the Simulate Pipeline API.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 6.8
Risk 3.4
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (3)
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-755 Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
System Score Found at
cvssv3 7.5 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-46673.json
epss 0.00458 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-46673
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-14-8-10-3-security-update-esa-2023-24/347708
generic_textual MODERATE https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-14-8-10-3-security-update-esa-2023-24/347708
cvssv3.1_qr MODERATE https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-285m-vhfq-xx4h
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
generic_textual MODERATE https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46673
generic_textual MODERATE https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46673
cvssv3.1 6.5 https://www.elastic.co/community/security
generic_textual MODERATE https://www.elastic.co/community/security
Reference id Reference type URL
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-46673.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2023-46673
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-14-8-10-3-security-update-esa-2023-24/347708
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
2251123 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2251123
CVE-2023-46673 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46673
GHSA-285m-vhfq-xx4h https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-285m-vhfq-xx4h
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2023-46673.json
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-14-8-10-3-security-update-esa-2023-24/347708
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-46673
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Found at https://www.elastic.co/community/security
Attack Vector (AV) Attack Complexity (AC) Privileges Required (PR) User Interaction (UI) Scope (S) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.64288
EPSS Score 0.00458
Published At May 30, 2026, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2026-05-30T21:02:35.685058+00:00 GitLab Importer Import https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch/CVE-2023-46673.yml 38.6.0