Vulnerability in Elasticsearch

[ Description ]Official description

Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to Denial of Service via a specially crafted, deeply nested request submitted to the aggregation feature of the search API. Elasticsearch contains an uncontrolled recursion weakness in its search aggregation processing. An authenticated user with read access to a single index can submit a specially crafted request containing deeply nested aggregation definitions. Processing this request triggers unbounded recursive execution that exhausts the server process's available resources, causing the affected node to terminate. The node does not recover automatically and requires manual intervention to restore service.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• CERT-FR7 Oct 2026CERTFR-2026-AVI-1276

  Multiple vulnerabilities in Elastic products Translated from French

  Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Elastic products. Some of them allow an attacker to cause privilege escalation, a breach of data confidentiality and a security policy bypass.

  CVE-2026-102406CVE-2026-103006CVE-2026-102404+11 more CVEs
• BSI CERT-Bund6 Oct 2026WID-SEC-2026-3784

  Elasticsearch: Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-102404CVE-2026-103005CVE-2026-103006+7 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-2-security-update-esa-2026-196/390870Vendor Advisory