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CVE-2026-72656 (GCVE-0-2026-72656)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 19:13 – Updated: 2026-08-13 20:29

Title

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

Summary

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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-13 19:57 UTC

CWE

CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

Assigner

elastic

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-18-0…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Elasticsearch	Affected: 8.11.0 , ≤ 8.17.9 (semver)

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FKIE_CVE-2026-72656

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-13 20:17 - Updated: 2026-08-13 21:18

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	security@elastic.co	https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-18-0-9-0-0-security-update-esa-2026-111/389495

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-GPG2-7M3G-5QC5

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-13 21:36 – Updated: 2026-08-13 21:36

Details

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


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

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Nomenclature

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