Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
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.
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| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2026-56145US | — | — | ||
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… | ||||
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