CVE-2014-3120

CRITICALNVD 8.19.0
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

“▲” beside the score: it is higher than NVD's CVSS score.

Score elevated to 9.0 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-03-25), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 8.1 retained for reference. The 9.0 is the floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: this CVE's impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH under GitHub Security Advisory CVSS. Confidence: HIGH.

Triggered by: CISA KEV (actively exploited)
Sources: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, NVD CVSS v3
Trending — 4 sources updated this weekExploited in the wild

Also known asEUVD-2022-5879 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-mrfm-jxgf-2h6v (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPatch nowTreat as an emergency — this is being exploited.
  • Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at every mission impact level
CISA-KEV: ExploitedEPSS PROB: 89%CVSS: 8.1Exploit: Metasploit · Exploit-DB (verified) · other public PoCExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code via the source parameter to _search. NOTE: this only violates the vendor's intended security policy if the user does not run Elasticsearch in its own independent virtual machine.

CVSS v3
8.1
EG Score
9.0CRITICALhigh confidence
EG Risk
76
EG Risk 76/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity81% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation100% × 40%
Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.
EPSS PROB
89%
EPSS %ILE
99th
KEV
⚠ Exploited

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.0 is the CISA KEV floor for confirmed exploitation, not an impact rating: its impact severity (EG Severity) is CVSS 8.1 HIGH.

EG Severity
8.1 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
89% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Attend at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low or medium mission impact and sooner than that at high.

Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”

Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3120

Published

July 28, 2014

Last Modified

April 22, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Nov 2, 2026
⚠️ Actively exploited (CISA KEV, CISA Vulnrichment). Patch available.
Web page

ElasticSearch - Remote Code Execution - Multiple webapps Exploit

http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33370
Web page

Bouke van der Bijl

http://bouk.co/blog/elasticsearch-rce/
Web page

Product Security at Elastic | Elastic

https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
Web page🟡 PoC Available

Logstash 1.4.3 released | Elastic Blog

https://www.elastic.co/blog/logstash-1-4-3-released
Web page

PSIRT.COM — Product Security Incident Response Team

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67731
Web page

ElasticSearch Dynamic Script Arbitrary Java Execution | Metasploit Module

http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/multi/elasticsearch/script_mvel_rce
Web page

Flashpoint | Threat Intelligence With Industry-Best Data

http://www.osvdb.org/106949

Patch Availability(4)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatkatello-configure-0:1.4.5.1-3.el6sam2014-09-11redhat
redhatpatch2014-09-10redhat
redhatpatch2014-09-10redhat
mavenorg.elasticsearch:elasticsearch @ 1.4.0.Beta1 (fixes < 1.4.0.Beta1)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch0.10.0 ... 1.3.9 (111 versions)
  • every version up to 1.4.0.Beta1: fixed in 1.4.0.Beta1
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Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

All Vendor Advisories

(3)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 19× in last 7d / 112× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 975 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 875 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-01 22:40 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-01 22:40 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-01 22:39 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mrfm-jxgf-2h6v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  4. 2026-11-01 08:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mrfm-jxgf-2h6v · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.1
  5. 2026-11-01 08:49 UTCEG score recompute
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  7. 2026-11-01 00:13 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-31 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
  9. 2026-10-31 01:47 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-31 01:47 UTCVendor advisory
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  17. 2026-10-27 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
  18. 2026-10-27 08:03 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-27 08:03 UTCVendor advisory
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  24. 2026-10-25 11:12 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-10-24 12:45 UTCVendor advisory
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  4. 2026-10-22 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
  5. 2026-10-22 15:51 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-21 17:24 UTCEG score recompute
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  8. 2026-10-21 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
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  10. 2026-10-20 18:58 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-20 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
  12. 2026-10-19 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-19 20:30 UTCVendor advisory
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  24. 2026-10-15 04:14 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-14 16:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
  26. 2026-10-14 05:48 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-14 05:48 UTCVendor advisory
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  53. 2026-10-08 20:32 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-08 20:32 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-08 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 89% · 99th percentile
  56. 2026-10-08 16:20 UTCVendor advisory
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Publicly available exploits

(5 references)

Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 2 Exploit-DB entries, 1 GitHub PoC), as is 1 Nuclei detection template. A detection template checks whether a system is affected; it is not necessarily exploit code. Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.

  • Exploit-DBEDB-33588✓ verified
    Published May 30, 2014

    ElasticSearch Dynamic Script - Arbitrary Java Execution (Metasploit)

    Open source ↗
  • Metasploitexploit/multi/elasticsearch/script_mvel_rce✓ verified
    Published May 29, 2014

    ElasticSearch Dynamic Script Arbitrary Java Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Exploit-DBEDB-33370✓ verified
    Published May 15, 2014

    ElasticSearch - Remote Code Execution

    Open source ↗
  • Nucleihttp/cves/2014/CVE-2014-3120.yaml
    Published Feb 15, 2021

    ElasticSearch v1.1.1/1.2 RCE

    Open source ↗
  • GitHub PoCechohtp/ElasticSearch-CVE-2014-3120
    Published Jul 7, 2014

    POC Code to exploite CVE-2014-3120

    Open source ↗

Frequently asked(6)

What is CVE-2014-3120?
CVE-2014-3120 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 28, 2014. The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary MVEL expressions and Java code via the source parameter to _search. NOTE: this only violates the vendor's intended security policy if the user does not run…
When was CVE-2014-3120 made public?
CVE-2014-3120 was made public on May 15, 2014: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, MITRE Corporation, gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on July 28, 2014. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of April 22, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2014-3120 actively exploited?
Yes. CISA added CVE-2014-3120 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on March 25, 2022, affecting Elastic Elasticsearch. KEV listing indicates confirmed exploitation in the wild; this CVE warrants immediate attention. A fix is available. Apply it.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2014-3120?
CVE-2014-3120 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.1 (NVD). EchelonGraph synthesises NVD + CISA KEV + FIRST EPSS + GHSA into a combined EG score of 9.0 (CRITICAL).
Which products are affected by CVE-2014-3120?
CVE-2014-3120 affects Elastic Elasticsearch. The affected packages EchelonGraph has on record, with version ranges, are listed in the Affected Packages section of this page.
How do I remediate CVE-2014-3120?
A fix for CVE-2014-3120 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory.

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