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TI-2024-35458 Aliases CVE-2024-52980GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

Priority LOW 30CWE-400Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00557 46th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok (Maven): 8.15.1

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ElasticElasticsearch7.17.0 – 8.15.0—No fix listedCNA
—org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok (Maven)7.17.0 to before 8.15.18.15.1Patch availableGHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg
  • Elasticsearch VendorElastic Affected 7.17.0 – 8.15.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
  • org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok (Maven) Vendor— Affected 7.17.0 to before 8.15.1 Fixed in 8.15.1 Patch available GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*7.17.0 to before 8.15.1VulnerableElastic
  • cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.17.0 to before 8.15.1 Vulnerable ·Elastic

Remediation

  • Fix · GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok (Maven) Fixed in 8.15.1 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-52980
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg

References

Patch 1

Advisory 1

Other 3

  • TI-2015-01295 The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2014-02491 The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
  • TI-2023-15037 Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2021-05135 Information disclosure in Elasticsearch CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
  • TI-2021-05136 All versions of Elastic Cloud Enterprise has the Elasticsearch “anonymous” user enabled… CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
  • TI-2015-04530 Elasticsearch before 1.6.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
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