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CVE-2026-56145

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
21/07/2026
Last modified:
07/08/2026

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 6.50 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x
6.50
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 8.0.0 (including) 8.19.18 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 9.0.0 (including) 9.3.7 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 9.4.0 (including) 9.4.4 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page


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