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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-72686

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

Description

A flaw in Elasticsearch allows a low-privileged authenticated user to submit a single request containing a crafted user-supplied input. A specific internal component validates the input using a recursive routine and applies no bound to the length of the value being validated, so the validation causes the thread to exhaust its stack. The resulting fatal error is not handled by the surrounding execution paths and terminates the affected node process, producing 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

  • 8.0.0 to ≤ 8.19.19affected
  • 9.0.0 to ≤ 9.4.4affected
  • 9.5.0affected

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