CVE-2026-102411

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Oct 6, 2026
Updated
Oct 6, 2026
Reserved
Sep 29, 2026

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Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to Denial of Service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). Elasticsearch enforces a size limit on the user-supplied metadata field for each individual template resource, but does not limit the total memory used when multiple such resources are retrieved together. A user holding the *manage_index_templates* cluster privilege can register multiple resources each within the individual limit. Retrieving them together materializes all of their metadata values in memory at once, exhausting available heap and causing the affected node to fail with an out-of-memory error, resulting in a denial of service.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Helastic

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

ProductVersions
ElasticsearchElastic
  • 8.0.0 through 8.19.22Affected
  • 9.0.0 through 9.4.6Affected
  • 9.5.0 through 9.5.2Affected

References

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