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CVE-2026-63263 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Exponential Data…
Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Exponential Data Expansion (CAPEC-197). An authenticated user may submit a specially crafted query to the ES|QL engine that causes exponential CPU consumption during query evaluation. Because the resource exhaustion persists beyond query completion, repeated requests can fully exhaust the available query worker resources, rendering ES|QL queries unavailable until the node is restarted.
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 → 9.3.7 | No fix stated |
| Elasticsearch 8.0 | 8.0.0 → 8.19.18 | No fix stated |
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