CVE details
CVE-2024-52980
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.
- Score
- 6.5 medium
- Published
- 2025-04-08
- Links
- NVD · cve.org · Report wrong data
Matched ports (1)
| Port | Package | Version | Status | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| textproc/py-elasticsearch7 | py312-elasticsearch7 | 7.17.13 | unaddressed | sunpoet@FreeBSD.org |
Template for a VuXML entry
Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.
<vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
<topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
<affects>
<package>
<name>py312-elasticsearch7</name>
<range><lt>8.15.1</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>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.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2024-52980</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52980</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2025-04-08</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-26</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>