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CVE-2026-102404: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-10-06 · updated 2026-10-13
- Weakness: CWE-400
Description
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A low-privileged authenticated user can submit a specially crafted query that causes uncontrolled memory growth in the query processing engine, resulting in an out-of-memory condition that terminates the Elasticsearch node. The condition can be triggered repeatedly, including by queries embedded in shared resources, causing persistent cluster unavailability.
Affected products
- Elasticsearch: from 8.0.0 before 8.19.23; from 9.0.0 before 9.4.8; from 9.5.0 before 9.5.5 — fixed in 8.19.23, 9.4.8, 9.5.5
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Elasticsearch 8.19.23, 9.4.8, 9.5.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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