Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A user with elevated privileges can submit a specially crafted machine learning request that causes excessive memory consumption, which may render the affected node unavailable.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-17-9-3-6-9-4-3-security-update-esa-2026-43 Vendor Advisory
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 4.9 · elasticNVD modified 2026-10-25 17:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*