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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: elastic
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-13T20:28:40.601Z
Reserved: 2026-08-10T11:17:35.481Z
Link: CVE-2026-72647
Updated: 2026-08-13T20:28:37.082Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-13T20:17:25.043
Modified: 2026-08-13T21:18:09.813
Link: CVE-2026-72647
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-08-13T21:15:02Z