MEDIUMVulnerability

CVE-2026-72656

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value (CWE-789) in the ES|QL query processing of Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user able to submit ES|QL queries could send a specially crafted query whose evaluation allocates an unbounded amount of heap memory, exhausting the available heap on the receiving node and causing the node to become unavailable.

Properties

severity
MEDIUM
score
6.5
epss_score
0.0029
cve_id
CVE-2026-72656
vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
published_at
2026-08-13T20:17:25.747
last_modified
2026-08-28T15:32:26.217
epss_percentile
0.21094

Related Entities (3)

ENRICHED_BY (1)

[Source]FIRST EPSS

HAS_WEAKNESS (1)

[Weakness]Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value

DESCRIBED_BY (1)

[Source]NVD

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