GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Maven
GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg Elasticsearch-grok Potential Node Crash due to Large Recursion in `innerForbidCircularReferences` Function
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-52980
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
- Reviewed
- 2025-04-09
Affected packages
• Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok: >= 7.17.0, < 8.15.1 → fixed in 8.15.1
Description
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-52980 A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the innerForbidCircularReferences function of the PatternBank class… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52980 advisory
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/4e5c6801f4d60f100f122072f6bf35b21fd722a5 web
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/a02dc7165c75f12701f8d47a2bdefe5283735267 web
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919 web
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch package