March 25, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2014-3120 — Elastic Elasticsearch
Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2022-03-25- Federal due date
2022-04-15- Vendor
- Elastic
- Product
- Elasticsearch
- EPSS
- 99.4th percentile (score 0.853, as of
2026-06-08) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- —
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3120
CISA short description
Elasticsearch enables dynamic scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code.
Required action
Apply updates per vendor instructions.