CVE-2024-52981

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-52981
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-52981.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-52981
Aliases
Downstream
MINI (2)
UBUNTU (1)
Published
2025-04-08T16:54:16Z
Modified
2026-08-12T15:16:06Z
Severity
  • 4.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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

Database specific 
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    "cwe_ids":  [
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Events
Introduced
bee86328705acaa9a6daede7140defd4d9ec56bd
Fixed
fcf25fff740db6ab3ed5d145c58d70e4c3528ea7
Introduced
1b6a7ece17463df5ff54a3e1302d825889aa1161
Fixed
253e8544a65ad44581194068936f2a5d57c2c051
Database specific
Show details 
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        },
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            "fixed":  "8.15.1"
        }
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Affected versions

v7.*
v7.17.0
v7.17.1
v7.17.10
v7.17.11
v7.17.12
v7.17.13
v7.17.14
v7.17.15
v7.17.16
v7.17.17
v7.17.18
v7.17.19
v7.17.2
v7.17.20
v7.17.21
v7.17.22
v7.17.23
v7.17.3
v7.17.4
v7.17.5
v7.17.6
v7.17.7
v7.17.8
v7.17.9

Database specific

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