What is CVE-2024-37280?

CVE-2024-37280 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Heap-based Buffer Overflow. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-06-13.

How severe is CVE-2024-37280?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Buffer overflow in Elastic Elasticsearch

CVE-2024-37280

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…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.003 (57.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch — versions 8.13.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-122 — Heap-based Buffer Overflow

References

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

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-37280?: CVE-2024-37280 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Heap-based Buffer Overflow. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2024-06-13.
How severe is CVE-2024-37280?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.