Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere Affecting github.com/elastic/beats package, versions <7.17.25>=8.0.0-alpha1 <8.15.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.02% (3rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMELASTICBEATS-10228825
  • published23 May 2025
  • disclosed1 May 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 May 2025

CVE-2024-52976  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-829  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/elastic/beats to version 7.17.25, 8.15.4 or higher.

Overview

github.com/elastic/beats is a the Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere via parameter injection in the osqueryd subprocess.

Note:

This is only exploitable if the attacker has permissions to access and modify the osqueryd configurations.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1