PT-2026-71762 · Elastic · Elasticsearch
CVE-2026-72647
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Published
2026-08-13
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Updated
2026-08-19
CVSS v3.1
6.5
Medium
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Elasticsearch (affected versions not specified)
Description
Uncontrolled Recursion occurs when a program continues to call a function without a proper termination condition. In this case, an authenticated user with read privileges on a single index can submit a specially crafted search request. Because the deeply nested structure of the request is processed without a depth limit, it exhausts the thread stack, resulting in a denial of service that terminates the affected node.
Recommendations
At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.
Exploit
DoS
Uncontrolled Recursion
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Elasticsearch