{"id":"CVE-2024-52980","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":["BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52980","GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg"],"modified":"2026-04-16T02:14:31.565879738Z","published":"2025-04-08T17:15:34.880Z","references":[{"type":"FIX","url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch","events":[{"introduced":"bee86328705acaa9a6daede7140defd4d9ec56bd"},{"fixed":"253e8544a65ad44581194068936f2a5d57c2c051"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"7.17.0"},{"fixed":"8.15.1"}]}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-52980.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}