elastic/elasticsearch · Security

Elasticsearch-grok Potential Node Crash due to Large Recursion in `innerForbidCircularReferences` Function

GHSA ID
GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg
CVE ID
CVE-2024-52980
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
6.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

CWEs

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