cve/2024/CVE-2024-52981.md

### [CVE-2024-52981](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2024-52981)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Product&message=Elasticsearch&color=blue)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=7.17.0%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Version&message=8.0%20&color=brightgreen)
![](https://img.shields.io/static/v1?label=Vulnerability&message=CWE-400%20Uncontrolled%20Resource%20Consumption&color=brightgreen)

### Description

An issue was discovered in Elasticsearch, where a large recursion using the Well-KnownText formatted string with nested GeometryCollection objects could cause a stackoverflow.

### POC

#### Reference
No PoCs from references.

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