CVE-2024-52980
MEDIUMElasticsearch 7.17.0-8.15.0 - Denial of Service via PatternBank Recursion
Title source: llmDescription
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.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0010
EPSS Percentile
27.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (2)
elastic/elasticsearch
7.17.0 - 8.15.1
org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch
7.17.0 - 8.15.1Maven
Published
Apr 08, 2025
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026