VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2024-52980
CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.56%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2025-04-08
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- security@elastic.co: CWE-400
Primary references
- security@elastic.co — Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory