PT-2026-62096 · Elastic · Elasticsearch
CVE-2026-63136
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Published
2026-07-21
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Updated
2026-07-21
CVSS v3.1
6.5
Medium
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A user with search privileges can submit a specially crafted search request that causes a data node to exhaust available heap memory, resulting in node unavailability and cluster degradation. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to cause cluster downtime requiring manual intervention to restore service.
Fix
Resource Exhaustion
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Weakness Enumeration
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Affected Products
Elasticsearch