vulnerability

Elastic Elasticsearch: CVE-2024-52980: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Apr 8, 2025
Added
Oct 2, 2025
Modified
Oct 2, 2025

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.

Solution

elastic-elasticsearch-upgrade-latest
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