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Advisory record · GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x

Elasticsearch Vulnerable to Stack Overflow due to a Large Recursion

CVSS 4.9 MediumEPSS 0.0059 · 48th percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 8 Apr 2025, 18:34 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven>=7.17.0, <7.17.24 || >=8.0.0-alpha1, <8.15.17.17.24, 8.15.1
Identifiers
GHSA-5xm9-x7x4-4j5x · BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52981 · CVE-2024-52981
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Tags
Published
8 Apr 2025
Updated
27 May 2025

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Elasticsearch versions 7.17.0 to before 7.17.24 and 8.0.0-alpha1 to before 8.15.1 are affected. An attacker who can submit Well-Known Text geometry input containing deeply nested GeometryCollection objects can trigger a stack overflow. The source gives few details beyond this. Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.17.24 or 8.15.1, or later.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
4.9 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CNA (elastic)
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.0059, the 48th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:11 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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