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Advisory record · GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability

CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.0066 · 52nd percentile

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.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
org.elasticsearch:elasticsearchMaven<7.17.25 || >=8.0.0-alpha1, <8.16.07.17.25, 8.16.0
Identifiers
GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg · BIT-elasticsearch-2024-52979 · CVE-2024-52979
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-400
Tags
Published
1 May 2025
Updated
2 Oct 2025

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

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
6.5 Medium 3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H 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

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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