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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.9 Medium

CVE-2026-56143

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
elastic

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A user with elevated privileges can submit a specially crafted request that causes excessive memory consumption, which may render the affected node unavailable.

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 ≤ 8.19.19affected
  • 9.0.0 to ≤ 9.2.8affected

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