PT-2025-15467 · Elastic · Elasticsearch

Published 2025-04-08 · Updated 2025-04-21 · CVE-2024-52980

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Elasticsearch (affected versions not specified)

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.

Recommendations: At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

BIT-ELASTICSEARCH-2024-52980

CVE-2024-52980

ECHO-912E-995E-04AC

GHSA-GHFH-P92W-J4MG

Affected Products

Elasticsearch

References · 14

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-52980 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52980 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-52980 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52980 · Vendor Advisory
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-52980 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-52980 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch · Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/a02dc7165c75f12701f8d47a2bdefe5283735267 · Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/4e5c6801f4d60f100f122072f6bf35b21fd722a5 · Note
• https://twitter.com/Hossted_OSS/status/1914196233830137870 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cvedetector/22490 · Telegram Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1909656052947460327 · Twitter Post