Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted search request submitted by a low-privileged authenticated user. A user with read-level index access can submit a request that triggers unbounded recursive processing within the Elasticsearch query evaluation component, causing a fatal error that terminates the affected node. In single-node deployments, this results in complete service outage; in multi-node clusters, it causes repeated node restarts and sustained availability degradation.
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Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted search request submitted by a low-privileged authenticated user. A user with read-level index access can submit a request that triggers unbounded recursive processing within the Elasticsearch query evaluation component, causing a fatal error that terminates the affected node. In single-node deployments, this results in complete service outage; in multi-node clusters, it causes repeated node restarts and sustained availability degradation. | |
| Title | Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-674 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: elastic
Published:
Updated: 2026-07-21T22:26:43.138Z
Reserved: 2026-07-15T18:23:57.166Z
Link: CVE-2026-63144
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Updated: 2026-07-22T05:15:02Z
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