SB2025040888 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Elasticsearch

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.

1) Uncontrolled Recursion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52981)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled recursion when using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects. A remote user can perform a denial of service attack.

2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52980)

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote user can use the innerForbidCircularReferences function of the PatternBank class to cause the Elasticsearch node to crash.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-24-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-37/376924
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919