Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A low-privileged authenticated user with permission to execute EQL sequence queries against an index they control can send a specially crafted query that triggers excessive memory consumption, causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-18-9-3-7-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-57/388556 Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 6.5 · elasticNVD modified 2026-10-24 19:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*