fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2024-52979

fkie_cve-2024-52979

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-05-01 14:15

Modified

2025-05-02 13:53

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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

▶	URL	Tags
	bressers@elastic.co	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-05-01 13:13

Modified

2025-05-01 13:25

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

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

►

URL

Tags

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Elastic	Elasticsearch	Version: 7.17.0 ≤ Version: 8.0.0 ≤

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