CVE-2026-115290: high-severity vulnerability in Elasticsearch
Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
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41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 7.5epss 0.4%
from disclosure to weapon2 days
Published on NVDNov 3
1st PoC+2d
Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Serialized Data with Nested Payloads (CAPEC-230). An unauthenticated attacker with network access to the remote cluster server interface of a node can send a specially crafted request that causes the node to terminate. No credentials are required. The attacker can repeat the request against each reachable node.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
Elastic · Elasticsearchpublic PoCs found — 1
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