CVE-2024-37280

Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability

Published Jun 13, 2024 CVSS 3.1 · 4.9 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of Service. Note that passthrough fields is an experimental feature.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2024-1914 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, affecting document ingestion when an index template contains a dynamic field mapping of “passthrough” type. Under certain circumstances, ingesting documents in this index would cause a StackOverflow exception to be thrown and ultimately lead to a Denial of Service. Note that passthrough fields is an experimental feature.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00357}

epss

{'score': 0.00244}

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Elastic
Elastic elasticsearch
Weaknesses CWE-787
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Elastic
Elastic elasticsearch
Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
elastic
Published
Updated
Aug 16, 2024, 5:02 PM
Reserved
Jun 5, 2024, 2:21 PM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 13, 2024, 5:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 7:38 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jun 7, 2024, 12:00 AM