CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-72647

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2026-08-13 Modified 2026-09-01 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2026-08-13
Last modified
2026-09-01
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-674

Description

Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Serialized Data with Nested Payloads (CAPEC-230). An authenticated user holding only read privileges on a single index can submit one specially crafted search request whose deeply nested structure is processed without a depth limit, exhausting the thread stack and terminating the affected node.

Affected configurations

• elastic elasticsearch (>= 8.0.0 < 8.19.20) • elastic elasticsearch (>= 9.0.0 < 9.4.5)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References