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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

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
  • From 9.5.0 before 9.5.1

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72687
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-72687