Advisoriesby IbisElasticsearchGHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x
Elasticsearch Vulnerable to Stack Overflow due to a Large Recursion
Fix: upgrade to 7.17.24 or later (2 fixed versions below)
An issue was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects could cause a stackoverflow.
Affected versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch Maven | >= 7.17.0, < 7.17.24 | 7.17.24 |
| >= 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.15.1 | 8.15.1 |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity from
- GitHub (reviewed advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Also known as
- BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52981, CVE-2024-52981
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52981
- github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/097fc0654f9305e01402a06c82926bb04ebe5495
- github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/91ddb124219a5be992644fcf78d7d061e4b7d44c
- github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/f0948d38fdc811eca4a4b71dcb81a9b7dbb654b3
- discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-24-and-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-37/376924
- github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
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