CVE-2024-52980

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.005 · 46 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.55% (46th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security@elastic.coexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USCWE-400US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source Elasticsearch <7.17.24all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch <8.15.1all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch< 7.17.24cert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch< 8.15.1cert_bundDE
Elastic Elasticsearch≤ 7.17.0 ≤8.15.0enisa_euvdEU
elastic elasticsearch7.17.0 → 8.15.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami elasticsearch7.17.0 → 8.15.1osvUSpkg:bitnami/elasticsearch
Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok7.17.0 → 8.15.1osvUSpkg:maven/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch-grok

advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-0742Elasticsearch: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Denial of ServiceDeutsch2025-04-08csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Elasticsearch ausnutzen, um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mgElasticsearch-grok Potential Node Crash due to Large Recursion in `innerForbidCircularReferences` Function2025-04-08ghsa · osvUS
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.
BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52980Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability2025-04-10vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-04-08modified 2026-06-17

references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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