CVE-2024-52980 Affecting ranger package, versions <2.9.0-r6


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.55% (45th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-RANGER-20153984
  • published26 Sept 2026
  • disclosed8 Apr 2025

Introduced: 8 Apr 2025

CVE-2024-52980  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard ranger to version 2.9.0-r6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ranger package and not the ranger package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

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.