What is GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg?

GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg cover?

GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2024-52979. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg?

GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg?

GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg affects 2 products, including: maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:\u003c 7.17.25; maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:\u003e= 8.0.0-alpha1, \u003c 8.16.0.

GHSA-mm3m-5497-xgggMediumCVSS 6.5

Elasticsearch Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

May 1, 2025

Last Modified

October 2, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-52979 →

📋 Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch while evaluating specifically crafted search templates with Mustache functions can lead to Denial of Service by causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.

🎯 Affected products2

maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:< 7.17.25
maven/org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch:>= 8.0.0-alpha1, < 8.16.0

🔗 References (6)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-52979
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-25-and-8-16-0-security-update-esa-2024-40/377709
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/pull/114002
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/cbde7f456d7ccd98556302fccf3238bb4557fc91
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/commit/f9b6b57d1d0f76e2d14291c04fb50abeb642cfbf
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mm3m-5497-xggg