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SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-pw39-f3m5-cxfc)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 417729

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2024-23449)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pw39-f3m5-cxfc

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 417729

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.2

Percentile: 51.07

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-23449

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/29/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/29/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-23449

cwe: CWE-248