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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-72638

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
elastic

Description

Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Input Data Manipulation (CAPEC-153). An authenticated user holding only low-privileged index creation permissions can submit a single request containing a specially crafted, malformed custom analysis definition that is resolved recursively without a cycle or depth check, exhausting the thread stack and terminating the affected node.

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 ≤ 9.4.4affected

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