ghsa-ghfh-p92w-j4mg
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Published
2025-04-08 18:34
Modified
2025-05-27 17:48
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Elasticsearch Potential Node Crash due to Large Recursion in `innerForbidCircularReferences` Function
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.

A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read_pipeline Elasticsearch cluster privilege assigned to them.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Maven",
        "name": "org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "7.17.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "8.15.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2024-52980"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2025-04-09T13:02:50Z",
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-04-08T17:15:34Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg",
  "modified": "2025-05-27T17:48:19Z",
  "published": "2025-04-08T18:34:42Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52980"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/4e5c6801f4d60f100f122072f6bf35b21fd722a5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/a02dc7165c75f12701f8d47a2bdefe5283735267"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Elasticsearch Potential Node Crash due to Large Recursion in `innerForbidCircularReferences` Function"
}


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