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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-72683

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

Description

A flaw in Elasticsearch allows an authenticated user with the privileges required to invoke the simulate pipeline API endpoint (https://www.elastic.co/docs/api/doc/elasticsearch/operation/operation-ingest-simulate) to submit a request that causes a self-referential data structure to be created. When a specific internal component later processes that structure, the operation recurses without bound and raises a fatal error that is not handled by the surrounding execution path, terminating the affected node process and resulting in a denial of service.

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

  • 5.0.0 to ≤ 8.19.18affected
  • 9.3.0 to ≤ 9.3.7affected
  • 9.4.0 to ≤ 9.4.3affected

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