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TI-2024-24795 Aliases CVE-2024-37280GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj

Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability

Priority LOW 23CWE-122Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-122 and the CVSS impact.

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00618 49th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven): 8.14.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ElasticElasticsearch8.13.1 – 8.13.4—No fix listedCNA
—org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)8.13.1 to before 8.14.08.14.0Patch availableGHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj
  • Elasticsearch VendorElastic Affected 8.13.1 – 8.13.4 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven) Vendor— Affected 8.13.1 to before 8.14.0 Fixed in 8.14.0 Patch available GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*8.13.1 to before 8.14.0VulnerableElastic
  • cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 8.13.1 to before 8.14.0 Vulnerable ·Elastic

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven) Fixed in 8.14.0 Advisory →

Vendor assessments

Red Hat

Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →

Not affected: 4 products
  • Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2
  • Red Hat Quay 3

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-37280
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj

References

Advisory 2

Other 1

  • TI-2015-01295 The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2014-02491 The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2023-15037 Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2021-05135 Information disclosure in Elasticsearch CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2021-05136 All versions of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2015-04530 Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
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Sources

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