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CVE-2024-52980

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Published: Apr 8, 2025Updated: Sep 30, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-400
NVD MITRE
6.5CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.4%
Top 65.6%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

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.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:H
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-400

Affected Products

ElasticsearchElastic
On-premDatabase
Databases
elasticsearchelastic
On-premDatabase
Databases
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMavenOSS Libraries
elasticcommercialUSDatabasesaka elasticsearch co., elastic.co
mavenpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries

Attack Graph

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
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References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919
discuss.elastic.co
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52980
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/4e5c6801f4d60f100f122072f6bf35b21fd722a5
github.com
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Timeline

Published
Apr 8, 2025
Last Updated
Sep 30, 2025

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