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.
Published: 2024-06-13
Score: 4.9 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00357}

epss

{'score': 0.00244}


Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:00:00 +0000

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

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
References
Metrics ssvc

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


Subscriptions

Elastic Elasticsearch
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-16T17:02:41.347Z

Reserved: 2024-06-05T14:21:14.941Z

Link: CVE-2024-37280

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-16T17:02:41.347Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-06-13T17:15:50.967

Modified: 2024-11-21T09:23:31.860

Link: CVE-2024-37280

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2024-06-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2024-37280 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses