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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-72679 EUVD-2026-58253GHSA-3w2j-qqf9-7gjm

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

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

Description

Elasticsearch does not apply its configurable input length restriction to a user-supplied pattern accepted by an intervals query. Compiling a deeply nested pattern drives unbounded recursion that exhausts the thread stack and raises a fatal error, terminating the Elasticsearch node process and causing a denial of service for that node. An authenticated user holding only read-only privileges on a single searchable index can trigger the condition with one small search request.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Elasticsearch 8.19.0 – ≤ 8.19.19, 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.4.4 —

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