PT-2025-18392 · Elastic · Elasticsearch

Published 2025-05-01 · Updated 2025-10-02 · CVE-2024-52979

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

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

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

Description The issue is related to Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch. It occurs when the system evaluates specifically crafted search templates that utilize Mustache functions. This can lead to a Denial of Service, causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.

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

DoS

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

BIT-ELASTICSEARCH-2024-52979

CVE-2024-52979

GHSA-MM3M-5497-XGGG

Affected Products

Elasticsearch

References · 15

• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2024-52979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52979 · Security Note
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2024-52979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2024-52979 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-52979 · Security Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch · Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/f9b6b57d1d0f76e2d14291c04fb50abeb642cfbf · Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/cbde7f456d7ccd98556302fccf3238bb4557fc91 · Note
• https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114002 · Note
• https://twitter.com/Hossted_OSS/status/1919272884003803559 · Twitter Post
• https://twitter.com/CVEnew/status/1918014675326841161 · Twitter Post
• https://t.me/cveNotify/137206 · Telegram Post