CVE-2024-52980 Information

Description

A flaw was discovered in Elasticsearch where a large recursion using the innerForbidCircularReferences function of the PatternBank class could cause the Elasticsearch node to crash.

A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read_pipeline Elasticsearch cluster privilege assigned to them.

Reference

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919