CVE-2024-37280
mediumpriority · track · 20EPSS 0.006 · 49 %ileDEEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
cvss
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ssvc
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weaknesses
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affected products (4)
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advisories (3)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- WID-SEC-W-2024-1314Elasticsearch: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of ServiceDeutsch2024-06-06csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Elasticsearch ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
- GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pjElasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability2024-06-13ghsa · osvUS
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.
- BIT-elasticsearch-2024-37280Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability2024-06-17vendor · osvUS
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.
also known as (5)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
- CNNVD-202406-670cnnvd
- EUVD-2024-1914enisa_euvd
- GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pjenisa_euvd
- BIT-elasticsearch-2024-37280osv
- GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pjosv
sources
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references (6)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-37280cnnvd
- https://cxsecurity.com/cveshow/CVE-2024-37280/cnnvd
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-14-0-security-update-esa-2024-14/361007cnnvd
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-14-0-security-update-esa-2024-14/361007enisa_euvd
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-14-0-security-update-esa-2024-14/361007Vendor Advisorynvd
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240816-0003/nvd
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