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.
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