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.
References
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-15-1-security-update-esa-2024-34/376919
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
CVSS impact metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
6.5 · Medium
Information
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Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Published
2025-04-08T17:15:34.880Z
1 year agoLast modified
2026-06-17T08:07:57.677Z
2 months ago