CVE-2024-52981

Published: Apr 8, 2025Modified: Oct 2, 2025

7.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 3.9 / Impact: 3.6

Source: NVD

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 (2)

Products: Elastic: Elasticsearch

Elastic

1 product

Elasticsearch

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Elastic Elasticsearch	From 7.17.0 to 7.17.24
Elastic Elasticsearch	From 8.0.0 to 8.15.1

Related CWEs

CWE-400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.

References (1)

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-24-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-37/376924

Source: security@elastic.co

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