Servers and applications
CVE-2026-72687
A flaw in Elasticsearch allows a low-privileged authenticated user to submit a single small request containing a forged opaque identifier. Elasticsearch decodes and deserializes the identifier before confirming that it was legitimately issued by the cluster, and a size value carried inside the identifier drives an allocation that is neither capped nor accounted for by the available memory-usage…
- 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, 9.5.1
- Sources
- NVD
Affected software
| Software | Affected versions |
|---|---|
ElasticsearchServers and applications · cpe:a:elastic:elasticsearch |
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