### [CVE-2024-52980](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-52980)
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![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=7.17.0%3C%3D%208.15.0%20&color=brighgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-400%20Uncontrolled%20Resource%20Consumption&color=brighgreen)

### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
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#### Github
- https://github.com/trailofbits/publications