# Elasticsearch Logstash allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands

Advisory record · `GHSA-8qhq-rq4j-8prj`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-8qhq-rq4j-8prj` · `CVE-2014-4326`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 4.0, no score published
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-78](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/78.html)
- **Tags:** [Command injection](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/command-injection.md)
- **Published:** 14 May 2022
- **Updated:** 16 Apr 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 14 May 2022, 00:58 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `logstash` (RubyGems): affected `>=1.0.14, <1.4.2`; fixed in `1.4.2`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- Score not published, CVSS 4.0: `CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U`, from GitHub Advisory Database

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.033, the 88th percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 14 May 2022. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-8qhq-rq4j-8prj](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8qhq-rq4j-8prj)
- [OSV: GHSA-8qhq-rq4j-8prj](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-8qhq-rq4j-8prj)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-4326>
- <https://github.com/elastic/logstash>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20140804031140/http://www.elasticsearch.org/blog/logstash-1-4-2>
- <https://web.archive.org/web/20201207013408/http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/532841/100/0/threaded>
- <https://www.elastic.co/community/security>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-8qhq-rq4j-8prj>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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