Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

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  "id": "a58169139ae02afb92348c71c82b13c067edcb2b915305184584c033eda36da6",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-elasticsearch-2026-102404",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service",
    "summary": "Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A low-privileged authenticated user can submit a specially crafted query that causes uncontrolled memory growth in the query processing engine, resulting in an out-of-memory condition that terminates the Elasticsearch node. The condition can be triggered repeatedly, including by queries embedded in shared resources, causing persistent cluster unavailability.",
    "evidence": "osv:BIT-elasticsearch-2026-102404",
    "products": [
      {
        "name": {
          "value": "elasticsearch",
          "evidence": "/affected/0/package/name"
        },
        "prerequisites": [],
        "fixed_versions": [
          {
            "value": "8.19.23",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "9.4.8",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          },
          {
            "value": "9.5.5",
            "evidence": "/affected/0/ranges"
          }
        ],
        "affected_versions": []
      }
    ],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "BIT-elasticsearch-2026-102404",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-elasticsearch-2026-102404",
        "CVE-2026-102404"
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "type": "SEMVER",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "8.0.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "8.19.23"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "9.0.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "9.4.8"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "9.5.0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "9.5.5"
                }
              ]
            }
          ],
          "package": {
            "name": "elasticsearch",
            "purl": "pkg:bitnami/elasticsearch",
            "ecosystem": "Bitnami"
          },
          "severity": [
            {
              "type": "CVSS_V3",
              "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/elasticsearch/BIT-elasticsearch-2026-102404.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-14T11:00:04.006127167Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-23-9-4-8-9-5-5-security-update-esa-2026-185/390859",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-102404"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "cpes": [
          "cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:maven:*:*"
        ],
        "severity": "Medium"
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2026-102404",
        "evidence": "/aliases"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/database_specific/severity"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 316147,
  "published_at": "2026-10-14T08:40:25.116+00:00"
}