CVE-2026-72636
Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in the Elasticsearch wildcard matching helper can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). The matcher used to resolve wildcard patterns against names is implemented recursively and had no bound on recursion depth or on the total number of match operations performed. A search request containing a wildcard pattern with a large number of wildcard groups, evaluated against a sufficiently long name, exhausts the thread stack. Elasticsearch treats a stack overflow as an unrecoverable condition and shuts the node down, so the request terminates the affected node rather than failing gracefully.
Scoring
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS base score
- 6.5
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS probability
- 0.30%
- CWE
- CWE-674
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-08-13
Affected products
- Elastic Elasticsearch
- Elastic Elasticsearch
Weakness type
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