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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-72656 EUVD-2026-58279GHSA-gpg2-7m3g-5qc5

Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

Published Aug 13, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 2026 · Assigned by elastic

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Elasticsearch 8.11.0 – ≤ 8.17.9 —

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