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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2024-52979 json

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

published 2025-05-01 18 mo ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52979 , EUVD-2025-13053 , GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 51%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch 7.17.25, 8.16.0
  • bitnami elasticsearch 7.17.25, 8.16.0
  • Elastic Elasticsearch 7.17.25, 8.16.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-52979 updated cvss 4.3

elasticsearch: Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/fluentd-rhel9 Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
18 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 51% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
maven org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch
<7.17.25
>=8.0.0-alpha1, <8.16.0
7.17.25
8.16.0
bitnami elasticsearch
>=7.17.0, <7.17.25
>=8.0.0, <8.16.0
7.17.25
8.16.0

Affected products

  • Elastic Elasticsearch

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.