Uncaught exception in Elasticsearch - CVE-2024-37280

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Uncaught exception in Elasticsearch - CVE-2024-37280

Published: June 7, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU91270
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-37280
CWE-ID: CWE-248
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to an uncaught exception 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.


Affected software

Elasticsearch
Watson CP4D Data Stores

How to mitigate CVE-2024-37280

Install updates from vendor's website.

Elasticsearch - update to 8.14.0
Watson CP4D Data Stores - update to 5.0.3

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