CVE-2024-52980 MEDIUM

CVE-2024-52980: Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Vendor Elastic
Product Elasticsearch
Weakness CWE-400
Published April 8, 2025
Last update April 8, 2025

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 8, 2025 CVE published
April 8, 2025 Record updated