Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [8.0.0-alpha1,8.19.17)[9.0.0-beta1,9.3.6)[9.4.0,9.4.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGELASTICSEARCH-17821213
  • published6 Jul 2026
  • disclosed1 Jul 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Jul 2026

NewCVE-2026-56149  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to version 8.19.17, 9.3.6, 9.4.3 or higher.

Overview

org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch is a Distributed, RESTful Search Engine.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the machine learning request process. An attacker can exhaust system memory and render the affected node unavailable by submitting specially crafted requests with elevated privileges.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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