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CVE-2026-56145

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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.

Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
6.5 (v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-07-21 20:17:02.500000
Last modified
2026-10-24 19:10:00.127000
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  "published": "2026-07-21T20:17:02.500",
  "lastModified": "2026-10-24T19:10:00.127",
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