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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-49090

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
elastic

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can submit a specially crafted bulk request that causes sustained high CPU consumption, which can render the affected node unable to process requests.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Elastic Elasticsearch

Default version status: unaffected

  • 8.0.0 to ≤ 8.14.3affected
  • 7.0.0 to ≤ 7.17.23affected

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