CVE-2024-52980 (GCVE-0-2024-52980)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-04-08 16:43 – Updated: 2025-04-08 19:59
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Elasticsearch |
Affected:
7.17.0 , ≤ 8.15.0
(semver)
|
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