CVE-2024-37280

Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability

Published: Jun 13, 2024Updated: Nov 21, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-122

4.9MEDIUM

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:HPrivileges Required

High

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:NIntegrity

None

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-122 CWE-787

Affected Products

Elastic

commercial·USaka elastic.co, elasticsearch co.

ElasticsearchOn-premDatabase

Databases

Maven

package-ecosystem

org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch

OSS Libraries

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Exploitability

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques

Initial Access

Privilege Escalation

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References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-14-0-security-update-esa-2024-14/361007

discuss.elastic.co

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240816-0003/

security.netapp.com

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37280

nvd.nist.gov

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