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CVE-2024-52980: Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2025-04-08 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-400
Description
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 products
- Elasticsearch: from 7.17.0 before 8.15.1 — fixed in 8.15.1
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Elasticsearch 8.15.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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