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Echo: org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch: security update to 8.15.1

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 459607

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)

Solution

Update the org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch library and its related packages to version 8.15.1 or later.

See Also

https://advisory.echohq.com/cve/CVE-2024-52980

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 459607

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/2/2026

Updated: 10/3/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.89

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: 12/3/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/23/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-52980