CVE-2024-52979

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

CVSS 6.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.5%CWE-400

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 6.5EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

01 May 2025Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

Elastic · Elasticsearch

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References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709