CVE-2024-52980CWE-400

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Medium · published April 8, 2025

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00547 · 45.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2025-04-08T16:43Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 APR 16:43Z
    Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
    cvelistv5