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CVE-2024-52979: Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

6.5 CVSS

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service by causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-52979

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 6.5

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

Problem Types

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Vendor: Elastic

Product: Elasticsearch

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 13.13% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-05-30 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52979
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709

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