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CVE-2024-52981

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% 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

An issue was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects could cause a stackoverflow.

Affected products

• Elasticsearch: from 7.17.0 before 7.17.24; from 8.0.0 before 8.15.1 — fixed in 7.17.24, 8.15.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Elasticsearch 7.17.24, 8.15.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-24-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-37/376924

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