Elasticsearch Document Ingest Vulnerability
CVE-2024-37280

4.9MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Elastic
Status
Elasticsearch
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 June 2024

Summary

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.

Affected Version(s)

Elasticsearch 8.13.1 <= 8.13.4

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-14-0-securit...

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.9
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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