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.
CVSS 6.5EPSS 0.296%Risk 0.67
View source- Published
- 2026-07-21 20:17:02
- Affected versions
- unknown
- Type
- Critical software
- Last modified
- 2026-08-07 20:10:36
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H