Vulnerability · Published Apr 8, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

CVE-2024-52980Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in Elasticsearch from Elastic. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 47% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 53.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official 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.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Maven	org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok	8.15.1	GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Elastic	Elasticsearch	7.17.0 – through 8.15.0

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919