CVE-2026-72638 PUBLISHED

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

Assigner: elastic
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 13.08.2026 Updated: 13.08.2026

Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Input Data Manipulation (CAPEC-153). An authenticated user holding only low-privileged index creation permissions can submit a single request containing a specially crafted, malformed custom analysis definition that is resolved recursively without a cycle or depth check, exhausting the thread stack and terminating the affected node.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor Elastic
Product Elasticsearch
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8.0.0 to 8.19.19 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.0.0 to 9.4.4 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation