Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch - CVE-2024-52981

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Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch - CVE-2024-52981

Published: April 8, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU107230
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52981
CWE-ID: CWE-674
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

Elasticsearch
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

How to mitigate CVE-2024-52981

Install updates from vendor's website.

Elasticsearch - addressed in versions 7.17.24, 8.15.1
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.10.0
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.3.1

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