VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-56145

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.47%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-07-21
Last modified2026-10-24
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A low-privileged authenticated user with permission to execute EQL sequence queries against an index they control can send a specially crafted query that triggers excessive memory consumption, causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Primary references