BIT-elasticsearch-2026-49090

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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

view advisory published 2026-07-06Licence: per source

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can submit a specially crafted bulk request that causes sustained high CPU consumption, which can render the affected node unable to process requests.

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Related CVEs.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2026-49090US	—	0.42% (36th)	—	2026-07-01
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can submit a specially craf…

references

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-7-17-24-8-15-0-security-update-esa-2026-52ADVISORY
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49090WEB

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