medium6.5
CVE-2026-72638
Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Input Data Manipulation (CAPEC-153).
Impact
Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Input Data Manipulation (CAPEC-153). An authenticated user holding only low-privileged index creation permissions can submit a single request containing a specially crafted, malformed custom analysis definition that is resolved recursively without a cycle or depth check, exhausting the thread stack and terminating the affected node.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Elasticsearch | from 8.0.0 before 8.19.20 from 9.0.0 before 9.4.5 |