CVE-2026-72679: Elastic Elasticsearch

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Elasticsearch does not apply its configurable input length restriction to a user-supplied pattern accepted by an intervals query. Compiling a deeply nested pattern drives unbounded recursion that exhausts the thread stack and raises a fatal error, terminating the Elasticsearch node process and causing a denial of service for that node. An authenticated user holding only read-only privileges on a single searchable index can trigger the condition with one small search request.

Affected products

• Elastic Elasticsearch: from 8.19.0, before 8.19.20 (fixed in 8.19.20); from 9.0.0, before 9.4.5 (fixed in 9.4.5)

Published 2026-08-13. Last modified 2026-09-01.