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SCA: security update for org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch (GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 424816

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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.
 (CVE-2024-52980)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ghfh-p92w-j4mg

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 424816

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 4/9/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.89

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-52980

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/8/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52980

cwe: CWE-400