CVE-2024-52981

MEDIUM

Elasticsearch 7.17.0-7.17.23 - Denial of Service via Well-KnownText GeometryCollection Recursion

Title source: llm

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Patch, Vendor Advisory

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

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9

EPSS 0.0009

EPSS Percentile 26.2%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/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 - 7.17.24

org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch 7.17.0 - 7.17.24Maven

Published Apr 08, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026