CVE-2026-72636

Published: Ago 13, 2026 Last Modified: Ago 13, 2026
ExploitDB:
Other exploit source:
Google Dorks:
MEDIUM 6,5
Source: [email protected]
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: low
User Interaction: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high

Description

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Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in the Elasticsearch wildcard matching helper can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). The matcher used to resolve wildcard patterns against names is implemented recursively and had no bound on recursion depth or on the total number of match operations performed. A search request containing a wildcard pattern with a large number of wildcard groups, evaluated against a sufficiently long name, exhausts the thread stack. Elasticsearch treats a stack overflow as an unrecoverable condition and shuts the node down, so the request terminates the affected node rather than failing gracefully.

674

Uncontrolled Recursion

Draft
Abstraction: Class Structure: Simple
Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability Confidentiality
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu) Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory) Read Application Data
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
View CWE Details
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-20-9-4-5-se…
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-20-9-4-5-security-update-esa-20…