CVE-2024-37280 Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability

What is CVE-2024-37280?

CVE-2024-37280 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 13 Jun 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-787, CWE-122

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-37280?

3 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch and elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Elasticsearch.

How do I fix CVE-2024-37280?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to 8.14.0 or later.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-37280 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-37280 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Elasticsearch

• CVE-2015-1427 Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-3120 Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution Exploited High 8.1
• CVE-2015-5377 Code injection in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2026-72649 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch Leading to Remote Code Execution High 8.8
• CVE-2026-72642 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the Elasticsearch Machine Learning Native Inference Process High 8.8

All Elastic Elasticsearch vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-elasticsearch-2024-37280, GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-37280.