CVE-2026-72647

CVE-2026-72647CVE-2026-72647

Description

Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Serialized Data with Nested Payloads (CAPEC-230). An authenticated user holding only read privileges on a single index can submit one specially crafted search request whose deeply nested structure is processed without a depth limit, exhausting the thread stack and terminating the affected node.

Scoring

CVSS 6.5 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Last modified2026-08-13
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.