{"id":"BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52980","summary":"Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability","details":"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.\n\nA successful attack requires a malicious user to have read_pipeline Elasticsearch cluster privilege assigned to them.","aliases":["CVE-2024-52980","GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg"],"modified":"2026-09-08T08:47:14.894281206Z","published":"2025-04-10T07:10:13.338Z","database_specific":{"severity":"Medium","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:maven:*:*"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52980"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"elasticsearch","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/elasticsearch"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"7.17.0"},{"fixed":"8.15.1"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/elasticsearch/BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52980.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}