7.5

CVE-2024-52981: elastic elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2024-52981GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5xBIT-elasticsearch-2024-52981
Published 08-04-2025Last modified 08-04-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-52981 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in elastic elasticsearch. EPSS estimates a 0.58% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 46.7% 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
0.58%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 08-04-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-04-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.58%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

47%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 0.57% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
0.58%

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, ≤ 7.17.23 | ≥ 8.0, ≤ 8.15.0 | ≥ 7.17.0, < 7.17.24 | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.15.1
Org.elasticsearch1 product
  • elasticsearch≥ 7.17.0, < 7.17.24 | ≥ 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.15.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • elasticsearchAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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