CVE-2024-52979 (GCVE-0-2024-52979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-01 13:13 – Updated: 2025-05-01 13:25
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Title
Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
Summary
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service by causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elasticsearch Affected: 7.17.0 , < 7.17.25 (semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , < 8.16.0 (semver)
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