CVE-2026-72656

mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.004 · 36 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.42% (36th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

9 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value (CWE-789) in the ES|QL query processing of Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user able to submit ES|QL queries could send a specially crafted query whose evaluation allocates an unbounded amount of heap memory, exhausting the available heap on the receiving node and causing the node to become unavailable.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hsecondary · security@elastic.coexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-789US

affected products (9)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source Elasticsearch <8.19.20all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch <9.4.5all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch <9.5.1all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch< 8.19.20cert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch< 9.4.5cert_bundDE
Open Source Elasticsearch< 9.5.1cert_bundDE
Elastic Elasticsearch≤ 8.11.0 ≤8.17.9enisa_euvdEU
elastic elasticsearch8.11.0 → 8.18.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami elasticsearch8.11.0 → 8.17.10osvUSpkg:bitnami/elasticsearch

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-2841Elasticsearch: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-08-13csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Elasticsearch ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, und um einen Denial of Service Angriff durchzuführen.
BIT-elasticsearch-2026-72656Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service2026-08-19vendor · osvUS
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value (CWE-789) in the ES|QL query processing of Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user able to submit ES|QL queries could send a specially crafted query whose evaluation allocates an unbounded amount of heap memory, exhausting the available heap on the receiving node and causing the node to become unavailable.

also known as (3)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-08-13modified 2026-08-28

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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