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Elasticsearch 8.13.1 <= 8.13.4 DoS (ESA-2024-14)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 200480

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Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a denial of service vulnerability..

Description

The version of Elasticsearch installed on the remote host is between 8.13.1 and 8.13.4. It is, therefore, affected by a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability as referenced in the ESA-2024-14 advisory:

 - 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. (CVE-2024-37280)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade Elasticsearch to 8.14.0 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f10ffef7

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 200480

File Name: elasticsearch_ESA-2024-14.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: combined

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 6/13/2024

Updated: 10/4/2024

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.1

Temporal Score: 4.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-37280

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:elastic:elasticsearch, cpe:/a:elasticsearch:elasticsearch

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Elasticsearch

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/5/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/5/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-37280

IAVA: 2024-A-0337