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CVE-2026-72636

Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in the Elasticsearch wildcard matching helper can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). The matcher used to resolve wildcard patterns against names is implemented recursively and had no bound on recursion depth or on the total number of match operations performed. A search request containing a wildcard pattern with a large number of…

Severity
Medium 6.5
Published
13 Aug 2026
Last changed
1 Sept 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Fixed in
8.19.20, 9.4.5
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
ElasticsearchServers and applications · cpe:a:elastic:elasticsearch
  • From 8.0.0 before 8.19.20
  • From 9.0.0 before 9.4.5

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72636
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72636