Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge affected by vulnerability in elasticsearch-7.17.13.jar
Vulnerability Details
CVEID: CVE-2023-46673
DESCRIPTION: 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.
CWE: CWE-755: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
CVSS Source: IBM X-Force
CVSS Base score: 6.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-23444
DESCRIPTION: 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 is generated is stored on disk unencrypted even if the --pass parameter is passed in the command invocation.
CWE: CWE-311: Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2024-23450
DESCRIPTION: 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.
CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2024-52979
DESCRIPTION: 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 crash.
CWE: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.5
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
CVEID: CVE-2025-37727
DESCRIPTION: 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/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation-r…
CWE: CWE-532: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
CVSS Source: security@elastic.co
CVSS Base score: 5.7
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2025-37731
DESCRIPTION: 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 signed by a legitimate, trusted Certificate Authority.
CWE: CWE-287: Improper Authentication
CVSS Source: NVD
CVSS Base score: 7.4
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N)
CVEID: CVE-2025-68390
DESCRIPTION: 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 and a denial of service (DoS) via crafted HTTP request.
CWE: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
CVSS Source: security@elastic.co
CVSS Base score: 4.9
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)
Affected Products and Versions
| Affected Product(s) | Version(s) |
| ICP - Discovery | 5.0.0-5.3.0 |
Remediation/Fixes
Upgrade to IBM Watson Discovery Cartridge 5.3.1 and https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/discovery-data?topic=discovery-data-install
Workarounds and Mitigations
None
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References
Acknowledgement
Change History
16 Apr 2026: Initial Publication
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Document Information
Modified date:
16 April 2026
Initial Publish date:
16 April 2026
UID
ibm17269785