CVE-2026-72656 PUBLISHED

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

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

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value (CWE-789) in the ES|QL query processing of Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user able to submit ES|QL queries could send a specially crafted query whose evaluation allocates an unbounded amount of heap memory, exhausting the available heap on the receiving node and causing the node to become unavailable.

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 8.11.0 to 8.17.9 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation