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CVE-2026-56145
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2026-07-21T20:17:02.500 · Last modified 2026-07-21T20:17:02.500

Summary

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.

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