Resource exhaustion in Elasticsearch - CVE-2024-52979

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Resource exhaustion in Elasticsearch - CVE-2024-52979

Published: May 1, 2025


Vulnerability identifier: #VU108114
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-52979
CWE-ID: CWE-400
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 application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when evaluating search templates with Mustache functions. A remote user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Elasticsearch
IBM Observability with Instana
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data

How to mitigate CVE-2024-52979

Install updates from vendor's website.

Elasticsearch - addressed in versions 7.17.25, 8.16.0
IBM Observability with Instana - update to 1.0.309
IBM Watson Discovery for IBM Cloud Pak for Data - update to 5.3.1

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