FKIE_CVE-2024-52979

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2025-05-01 14:15 - Updated: 2025-10-02 16:40
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
security@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elastic elasticsearch *
elastic elasticsearch *
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    {
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        {
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              "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "matchCriteriaId": "F052AD00-C5CE-48F1-B778-58B55F289A60",
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    },
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      "lang": "es",
      "value": "El consumo descontrolado de recursos en Elasticsearch al evaluar plantillas de b\u00fasqueda espec\u00edficamente manipuladas con funciones Mustache puede provocar una denegaci\u00f3n de servicio al provocar que el nodo Elasticsearch se bloquee."
    }
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  "id": "CVE-2024-52979",
  "lastModified": "2025-10-02T16:40:31.107",
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