TI-2024-35459 Aliases CVE-2024-52981 GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x

Uncontrolled resource consumption in Elasticsearch

LOW 34CWE-400Published 2025-04-08 · Updated 2025-04-08

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: None
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 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-400.

Summary

An issue was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects could cause a stackoverflow.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00594 48th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven): 7.17.24, 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

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Elastic	Elasticsearch	7.17.0 – 7.17.23; 8.0 – 8.15.0	—	No fix listed	CNA
—	org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)	7.17.0 to before 7.17.24	7.17.24	Patch available	GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x
—	org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven)	8.0.0-alpha1 to before 8.15.1	8.15.1	Patch available	GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x

Elasticsearch VendorElastic Affected 7.17.0 – 7.17.23; 8.0 – 8.15.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven) Vendor— Affected 7.17.0 to before 7.17.24 Fixed in 7.17.24 Patch available GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven) Vendor— Affected 8.0.0-alpha1 to before 8.15.1 Fixed in 8.15.1 Patch available GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch::::::::	7.17.0 to before 7.17.24; 8.0.0 to before 8.15.1	Vulnerable	Elastic

cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.17.0 to before 7.17.24; 8.0.0 to before 8.15.1 Vulnerable ·Elastic

Remediation

Fix · GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven) Fixed in 7.17.24 Advisory →
Fix · GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (Maven) Fixed in 8.15.1 Advisory →

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-52981
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x

References

Patch 1

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-24-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-37/376924

Advisory 1

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52981

Other 4

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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Sources

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