CVE-2024-52981
MEDIUM4.9EPSS 0.10%Elasticsearch Vulnerable to Stack Overflow due to a Large Recursion
Published: 4/8/2025Modified: 10/3/2025
Description
An issue was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects could cause a stackoverflow.
Affected packages (2)
- Bitnami/elasticsearch>= 7.17.0, < 7.17.24, >= 8.0.0, < 8.15.1
- Maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch>= 7.17.0, < 7.17.24
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM4.9 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52981
- PATCHhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
- WEBhttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-24-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-37/376924
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/097fc0654f9305e01402a06c82926bb04ebe5495
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/91ddb124219a5be992644fcf78d7d061e4b7d44c
- WEBhttps://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/f0948d38fdc811eca4a4b71dcb81a9b7dbb654b3