CVE-2024-52980: Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

6.5 CVSS

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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-52980

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: 13.16% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-21 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52980
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919

Timeline