What is CVE-2024-52981?

CVE-2024-52981 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-04-08.

How severe is CVE-2024-52981?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-52981 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-2024-52981

An issue was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects could cause a stackoverflow.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.001 (26.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Elastic Elasticsearch — versions 7.17.0, 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Public proof-of-concept exploits

trailofbits/publications

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-24-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-…

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-52981?: CVE-2024-52981 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.9/10. Published 2025-04-08.
How severe is CVE-2024-52981?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-52981 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.