# Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability

Advisory record · `GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg`

- **Identifiers:** `GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg` · `BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52979` · `CVE-2024-52979`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 6.5 Medium
- **Critical:** No
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-400](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Published:** 1 May 2025
- **Updated:** 2 Oct 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 1 May 2025, 15:31 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

## Affected packages

- `org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch` (Maven): affected `<7.17.25 || >=8.0.0-alpha1, <8.16.0`; fixed in `7.17.25`, `8.16.0`

## Machine-written summary

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

> Elasticsearch (Maven package org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch) versions before 7.17.25 and from 8.0.0-alpha1 before 8.16.0 are affected. An attacker who can submit specially crafted search templates that use Mustache functions can exhaust resources and crash the Elasticsearch node, causing a denial of service. Upgrade to version 7.17.25 or 8.16.0.

Written 7 Nov 2026.

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

## Severity and exploitation

- 6.5 Medium, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from CNA (elastic)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0066, the 52nd percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

- 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC: First seen by agentprime
- 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC: [Confirmed by OSV](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg)

## Sources

- [GitHub Advisory Database: GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg](https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg)
- [OSV: GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg](https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg)
- <https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52979>
- <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114002>
- <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/cbde7f456d7ccd98556302fccf3238bb4557fc91>
- <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/f9b6b57d1d0f76e2d14291c04fb50abeb642cfbf>
- <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709>
- <https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch>

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.

## Check whether this affects you

A Match means an installed version is in the affected range above. Most don’t affect the app; agentprime hasn’t analysed this one yet.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), ask your agent to check the project: `check_lockfile` sends a lockfile, `check_packages` a list of installed packages, and both return the Matches and the upgrades that clear them. `get_advisory` returns this record. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- In a browser: <https://agentprime.io/check/> reads your lockfile in the browser, never uploading it.
- Whether it touches your code, with file and line: the Claude Code plugin, <https://agentprime.io/plugin.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg>, or `POST https://api.agentprime.io/v1/match` with your packages (<https://agentprime.io/api.md>)

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