fkie_nvd - fkie_cve-2024-52979

fkie_cve-2024-52979

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-05-01 14:15

Modified

2025-10-02 16:40

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service by causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.

References

▼	URL	Tags
	bressers@elastic.co	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709	Patch, Vendor Advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	elastic	elasticsearch	*
	elastic	elasticsearch	*

JSON

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  "lastModified": "2025-10-02T16:40:31.107",
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}

CVE-2024-52979 (GCVE-0-2024-52979)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-05-01 13:13

Modified

2025-05-01 13:25

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Summary

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	Elastic	Elasticsearch	Version: 7.17.0 ≤ Version: 8.0.0 ≤

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or seen somewhere by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability is confirmed from an analyst perspective.
Exploited: This vulnerability was exploited and seen by the user reporting the sighting.
Patched: This vulnerability was successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.
Not exploited: This vulnerability was not exploited or seen by the user reporting the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expresses doubt about the veracity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: This vulnerability was not successfully patched by the user reporting the sighting.

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