CVE-2026-115715
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial…
- Risk score
- 44/100
- CVSS
- 6.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 3 Nov 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted input value that is processed by an affected phonetic encoder of the analysis-phonetic plugin. An authenticated user with permission to write documents to or run searches against an ind…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.5 medium
References
Original description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted input value that is processed by an affected phonetic encoder of the analysis-phonetic plugin. An authenticated user with permission to write documents to or run searches against an index that uses an affected encoder can cause an Elasticsearch node to exhaust its heap memory. The node can become unresponsive or terminate.
Last activity 3 Nov 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.