CVE-2024-52979

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: May 1, 2025
Updated: May 1, 2025
Reserved: Nov 18, 2024

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ElasticsearchElastic	7.17.0 to before 7.17.25Affected 8.0.0 to before 8.16.0Affected

References

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

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