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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-72679

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

Description

Elasticsearch does not apply its configurable input length restriction to a user-supplied pattern accepted by an intervals query. Compiling a deeply nested pattern drives unbounded recursion that exhausts the thread stack and raises a fatal error, terminating the Elasticsearch node process and causing a denial of service for that node. An authenticated user holding only read-only privileges on a single searchable index can trigger the condition with one small search request.

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

  • 8.19.0 to ≤ 8.19.19affected
  • 9.0.0 to ≤ 9.4.4affected

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