Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch package, versions [8.0.0,8.19.23)[9.0.0,9.4.7)[9.5.0,9.5.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGELASTICSEARCH-20937400
  • published14 Oct 2026
  • disclosed6 Oct 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-102411  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade org.elasticsearch:elasticsearch to version 8.19.23, 9.4.7, 9.5.3 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 retrieval process of multiple template resources with user-supplied metadata. An attacker can exhaust available heap memory and cause node failure by registering multiple resources within individual size limits and retrieving them together, resulting in out-of-memory errors.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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