Is Elasticsearch 7.17.18 affected?
Feb 6, 2024 · Release notes ↗
13 known vulnerabilities affect 7.17.18 (highest CVSS 6.8).
Your branch 7 has reached end of life (Jan 15, 2026).
11 newer releases in its track, up to 7.17.29. What changed up to 7.17.29
A newer release line is out: 9.5.5.
Vulnerabilities affecting 7.17.18
- 6.8 CVE-2025-37731 Improper Authentication in Elasticsearch PKI realm can lead to user impersonation via specially crafted client certificates. A malicious actor would need to have such a crafted client certificate s…
- 6.5 CVE-2026-72683 A flaw in Elasticsearch allows an authenticated user with the privileges required to invoke the simulate pipeline API endpoint (https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation… fixed in 8.19.19
- 6.5 CVE-2026-49090 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can submit a specially crafted bulk request… fixed in 7.17.24
- 6.5 CVE-2025-68384 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) causing a persistent denial o…
- 6.5 CVE-2024-52979 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service by causing the Elasticsearch node to… fixed in 7.17.25
- 6.5 CVE-2024-52980 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the innerForbidCircularReferences function of the PatternBank class could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash. A successful… fixed in 8.15.1
- 6.5 CVE-2024-43709 An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Elasticsearch can lead to an OutOfMemoryError exception resulting in a crash via a specially crafted query using an SQL function. fixed in 7.17.21
- 5.7 CVE-2025-37727 Insertion of sensitive information in log file in Elasticsearch can lead to loss of confidentiality under specific preconditions when auditing requests to the reindex API https://www.elastic.co/do…
- 5.4 CVE-2026-102407 Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Elasticsearch can lead to unauthorized data stream modification via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user wi…
- 4.9 CVE-2025-68390 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow an authenticated user with snapshot restore privileges to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of memory…
- 4.9 CVE-2024-52981 An issue was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects could cause a stackoverflow. fixed in 7.17.24
- 4.9 CVE-2024-23444 It was discovered by Elastic engineering that when elasticsearch-certutil CLI tool is used with the csr option in order to create a new Certificate Signing Requests, the associated private key that… fixed in 7.17.23
- 4.9 CVE-2024-23450 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where processing a document in a deeply nested pipeline on an ingest node could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash. fixed in 7.17.19
Newer releases
| 7.17.29 | Jun 24, 2025 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.29 |
| 7.17.28 | Feb 25, 2025 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.28 |
| 7.17.27 | Jan 14, 2025 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.27 |
| 7.17.26 | Dec 3, 2024 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.26 |
| 7.17.25 | Oct 22, 2024 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.25 |
| 7.17.24 | Sep 10, 2024 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.24 |
| 7.17.23 | Jul 30, 2024 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.23 |
| 7.17.22 | Jun 13, 2024 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.22 |
| 7.17.21 | May 3, 2024 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.21 |
| 7.17.20 | Apr 10, 2024 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.20 |
| 7.17.19 | Mar 26, 2024 | 7.17.18 → 7.17.19 |