CVE-2024-52979 Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
Attackers can crash Elasticsearch nodes by submitting crafted search templates with Mustache functions, causing denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2024-52979?
CVE-2024-52979 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 1 May 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service by causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52979?
5 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch and elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | All versions | 7.17.25 |
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | All versions | 7.17.25 |
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | From 8.0.0-alpha1 | 8.16.0 |
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | From 8.0.0-alpha1 | 8.16.0 |
elasticsearch Bitnami | From 7.17.0 | 7.17.25, 8.16.0 |
Products include Elastic Elasticsearch.
How do I fix CVE-2024-52979?
Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to a fixed version for your release line: 7.17.25 or 8.16.0.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2024-52979 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52979 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Elasticsearch
- CVE-2015-1427 Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2014-3120 Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2015-5377 Code injection in n/a
- CVE-2026-72649 Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch Leading to Remote Code Execution
- CVE-2026-72642 Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the Elasticsearch Machine Learning Native Inference Process
Sources
Also known as BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52979, GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg, MINI-5q9r-v4q2-w7fr, MINI-q68r-h3pg-gmhm, MINI-qcv7-xf5c-p7pq, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-52979.