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CVE-2024-52980
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-04-08T17:15:34.880 · Last modified 2026-06-17T08:07:57.677

Summary

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.

Affected products

elastic — elasticsearch

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