MEDIUMVulnerability
CVE-2026-72647
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.
Properties
- severity
- MEDIUM
- score
- 6.5
- epss_score
- 0.00296
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-72647
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- published_at
- 2026-08-13T20:17:25.043
- last_modified
- 2026-09-01T15:31:04.473
- epss_percentile
- 0.21798
Related Entities (4)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Uncontrolled Recursion
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
AFFECTS_PRODUCT (1)
→[Product]
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