Vulnerability in org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok (CVE-2024-52980)
Summary
Vulnerability in org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok (CVE-2024-52980). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 8.15.1 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
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.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2024-52980 has been found in org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
What to do: upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok to 8.15.1 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok CVE-2024-52980" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2024-52980 (org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok) — CWE-400
Patched: 8.15.1 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-400) exists in org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok.
Severity: ?. Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 8.15.1.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Audit SBOM/dependencies to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
Audit SBOM/dependencies for affected components.資産台帳・SBOM・依存マニフェストで org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok を使っているサービスとバージョンを洗い出す。
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2Apply patch patch
Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch-grok to 8.15.1ステージング環境で 8.15.1 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
References
- advisory discuss.elastic.co
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web github.com
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