CVE-2024-52980

Updated on 08 Apr 2025

Severity

6.5 Medium severity

Details

CVSS score
6.5
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Overview

About vulnerability

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.

Details

Affected product:
Elasticsearch , Spring , elasticsearch
Affected packages:
spring-boot-starter-data-jdbc @ 2.7.18 (+515 more)

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.