๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-103008

MEDIUM 6.5

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to Denial of Service via a specially crafted request that causes the server to construct and process a deeply nested data structure with no bound on recursion depth. Elasticsearch contains an uncontrolled recursion weakness in how it builds and serializes geometry values produced by scripted runtime fields. Unlike geometry supplied as text, which is subject to a nesting-depth limit, geometry constructed from a script's output is not bounded. An authenticated user with read access to a single index can submit a request defining such a field with a script that produces a deeply nested structure. Processing this request recurses past the available stack space, causing the affected node to terminate. The node does not recover automatically on all deployments and may require manual intervention to restore service.

CWE CWE-674
Vendor elastic
Product elasticsearch
Ecosystems
Industries
Technology
Published Oct 6, 2026
Last Updated Oct 6, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

Elastic / Elasticsearch
8.12.0 โ‰ค 8.19.22 9.0.0 โ‰ค 9.4.7 9.5.0 โ‰ค 9.5.4

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
discuss.elastic.co: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-23-9-4-8-9-5-5-security-update-esa-2026-198/390872