{"id":"GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj","summary":"Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability","details":"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.","aliases":["BIT-elasticsearch-2024-37280","CVE-2024-37280"],"modified":"2026-07-17T21:05:18.052476711Z","published":"2024-06-13T18:31:58Z","database_specific":{"nvd_published_at":"2024-06-13T17:15:50Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-122","CWE-787"],"severity":"MODERATE","github_reviewed":true,"github_reviewed_at":"2024-06-13T22:03:51Z"},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-37280"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-14-0-security-update-esa-2024-14/361007"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch","ecosystem":"Maven","purl":"pkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"8.13.1"},{"fixed":"8.14.0"}]}],"versions":["8.13.1","8.13.2","8.13.3","8.13.4"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/06/GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj/GHSA-4q22-422g-m4pj.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}