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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Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:45:00 +0000
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: elastic
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-22T18:25:22.708Z
Reserved: 2026-06-19T11:01:02.535Z
Link: CVE-2026-56145
Updated: 2026-07-22T18:13:58.347Z
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Updated: 2026-07-24T03:15:02Z
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