CVE-2024-52980 (GCVE-0-2024-52980)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-04-08 16:43
Modified
2025-04-08 19:59
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
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.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Elasticsearch Version: 7.17.0   ≤ 8.15.0
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