CVE-2026-63263EPSS p34.1%

CVE-2026-63263CVE-2026-63263

elastic / elasticsearch

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Exponential Data Expansion (CAPEC-197). An authenticated user may submit a specially crafted query to the ES|QL engine that causes exponential CPU consumption during query evaluation. Because the resource exhaustion persists beyond query completion, repeated requests can fully exhaust the available query worker resources, rendering ES|QL queries unavailable until the node is restarted.

Scoring

CVSS 6.5 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS0.42% probability of exploitation · percentile 34.1% · 2026-10-05T12:00:23Z
Last modified2026-08-03
Sourced from NVD + FIRST.org EPSS. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.