7.5

CVE-2024-52979: elastic elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-52979GHSA-mm3m-5497-xgggBIT-elasticsearch-2024-52979
Published 01-05-2025Last modified 01-05-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-52979 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in elastic elasticsearch. EPSS estimates a 0.65% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.65%
0%100%
Low · +0.03 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 01-05-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 01-05-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service by causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.65%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

50%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.03 pp

From 0.62% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.65%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Elastic1 product
  • elasticsearch≥ 7.17.0, < 7.17.25 | < 7.17.25 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.16.0
Org.elasticsearch1 product
  • elasticsearch< 7.17.25 | ≥ 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.16.0
Ubuntu1 product
  • elasticsearchAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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