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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-72685 EUVD-2026-58249GHSA-5mjq-6xvh-rmv2

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

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

Description

A flaw in Elasticsearch allows a low-privileged authenticated user who can index documents to submit a single small document containing a crafted user-supplied input. Processing one such document occupies a worker thread from a bounded pool for a disproportionate amount of time, degrading the availability of indexing operations on the affected node.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Elasticsearch 8.0.0 – ≤ 8.19.19, 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.4.4 —

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