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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2024-52980

Medium
6.5/10

Summary

A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the inner "ForbidCircularReferences" 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. This issue affects org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok versions 7.17.0 through 8.15.0.

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  • NETWORK
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  • UNCHANGED
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  • HIGH

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published