How can a heavily nested JSON data structure be displayed/searched in Elasticsearch

[siiman]

Hello, everyone,

I would like to know in general how a nested JSON data structure can most effectively be imported into Elasticsearch.
I have read some posts on this topic and also tried the approaches with parent/child fields, nested fields, partially denormalized data structure and separate indexes. Unfortunately everything did not lead to the desired success so far.

For example I have the following structure:

{
  "CVE_Items" : [ {
    "cve" : {
      "data_type" : "CVE",
      "CVE_data_meta" : {
        "ID" : "CVE-2006-1174"
      },
      "references" : {
        "reference_data" : [ {
          "url" : "",
          "name" : "",
          "refsource" : "",
          "tags" : [ "Patch", "Vendor Advisory" ]
        }, {
          "url" : "",
          "name" : "",
          "refsource" : "",
          "tags" : [ "Vendor Advisory" ]
        }, {
          "url" : "",
          "name" : "",
          "refsource" : "",
          "tags" : [ "Vendor Advisory" ]
        }, {
          "url" : "",
          "name" : "",
          "refsource" : "",
          "tags" : [ "Exploit" ]
        } ]
      },
      "description" : {
        "description_data" : [ {
          "lang" : "en",
          "value" : ""
        } ]
      }
    },
    "configurations" : {
      "CVE_data_version" : "4.0",
      "nodes" : [ {
        "operator" : "OR",
        "cpe_match" : [ {
          "vulnerable" : true,
          "cpe23Uri" : "cpe:2.3:a:debian:shadow:4.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
          "vendor" : "debian",
          "version" : "4.0.0"
        }, {
          "vulnerable" : true,
          "cpe23Uri" : "cpe:2.3:a:debian:shadow:4.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
          "vendor" : "debian",
          "version" : "4.0.1"
        }, {
          "vulnerable" : true,
          "cpe23Uri" : "cpe:2.3:a:debian:shadow:4.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
          "vendor" : "debian",
          "version" : "4.0.2"
        } ]
      } ]
    },
    "publishedDate" : "2006-05-28T23:02Z",
    "lastModifiedDate" : "2020-08-11T17:09Z"
  }, {
    "cve" : {
      [...]
  } ]
}

The arrays cpe_match and references can contain about 50 entries.

Planned is a search/visualization for properties in the array cpe_match e.g. vendor and an output/aggreations of the related information of the uppermost JSON data structure or also from the array "references". Here, further filtering by properties (tags) should also be possible. (e.g. for CVE_ID: XXX a Exploit and Patch is given and lastModifiedDate was ...)
The search should also be possible in reverse.