Medium, CVSS 6.5MavenPublished
Elasticsearch-grok Potential Node Crash due to Large Recursion in innerForbidCircularReferences Function
CVE-2024-52980 · GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg
- Affected
- Maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok >= 7.17.0, < 8.15.1
- Fixed in
- 8.15.1· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- 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 readpipeline Elasticsearch cluster privilege assigned to them.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 8.15.1 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.