CVE-2024-52980 Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability
A malicious user with read_pipeline privileges can crash Elasticsearch nodes via uncontrolled recursion in the PatternBank class.
- 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-2024-52980?
CVE-2024-52980 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 8 Apr 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-52980?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok and elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok Maven | From 7.17.0 | 8.15.1 |
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok Maven | From 7.17.0 | 8.15.1 |
elasticsearch Bitnami | From 7.17.0 | 8.15.1 |
Products include Elastic Elasticsearch.
How do I fix CVE-2024-52980?
Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok to 8.15.1 or later.
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-2024-52980 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-52980 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-2024-52980, ECHO-912e-995e-04ac, GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg, MINI-5xwf-8j95-q6gc, MINI-m7w8-vxp2-5qmw, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-52980.