CVE-2026-72687
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
AI Translation Available
A flaw in Elasticsearch allows a low-privileged authenticated user to submit a single small request containing a forged opaque identifier. Elasticsearch decodes and deserializes the identifier before confirming that it was legitimately issued by the cluster, and a size value carried inside the identifier drives an allocation that is neither capped nor accounted for by the available memory-usage controls. The resulting out-of-memory condition is fatal and terminates the affected node process, resulting in a denial of service.
789
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
DraftCommon Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory)
Applicable Platforms
Languages:
C, C++, Not Language-Specific
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-20-9-4-5-9-5-1-security-update-…