CVE-2024-52980
April 08, 2025
A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the innerForbidCircularReferences function of the PatternBank class could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash.
A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read_pipeline Elasticsearch cluster privilege assigned to them.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v7.17.0 <v8.15.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v8.15.1org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=7.17.0 <8.15.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 8.15.1org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=8.5.0 <8.15.1Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 8.15.1Related Resources (5)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
7.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
EPSS
Base Score:
0.27
