What is CVE-2024-52980?

CVE-2024-52980 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-08.

How severe is CVE-2024-52980?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-52980 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in Elastic Elasticsearch

CVE-2024-52980

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 r…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.001 (28.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch — versions 7.17.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

trailofbits/publications

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52980?: CVE-2024-52980 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-04-08.
How severe is CVE-2024-52980?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-52980 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.