CVE-2024-52979
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maven | org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch | <7.17.25 | 7.17.25 |
| Maven | org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch | >=8.0.0-alpha1,<8.16.0 | 8.16.0 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52979
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114002
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/cbde7f456d7ccd98556302fccf3238bb4557fc91
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/f9b6b57d1d0f76e2d14291c04fb50abeb642cfbf
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709
- https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.