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CVE-2026-56145 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation…

Description

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.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Elasticsearch 9.4 9.4.0 → 9.4.3 No fix stated
Elasticsearch 9.0 9.0.0 → 9.3.6 No fix stated
Elasticsearch 8.0 8.0.0 → 8.19.17 No fix stated
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