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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

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6.5MediumCNA
Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
No fix listed
Who is exposed
Not reported
15Pcve.now Index 15 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional
  • Exploitation0/40No signal
  • Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Data gap: No advisory context yet
  • Reach?/20Reach: unknown (data gap). No tracked technology or package matched
  • Severity6.5/10CVSS 6.5
  • No patch5/5No patch listed yet

What would change the score

  • Would score about 70 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 65 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 34 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

CVE-2026-115715 is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. No public exploit code is tracked. It is rated CVSS 6.5 (medium) and affects Elasticsearch; no fixed version is listed yet.

Published
Last modified
Published
Not listed in CISA KEV
15/100 · provisional
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

The vulnerability affects Elasticsearch, specifically its analysis-phonetic plugin when certain phonetic encoders are used. An authenticated user who can write documents or run searches against an affected index could send a crafted input that exhausts a node's memory, causing it to become unresponsive or crash.

Read the original description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted input value that is processed by an affected phonetic encoder of the analysis-phonetic plugin. An authenticated user with permission to write documents to or run searches against an index that uses an affected encoder can cause an Elasticsearch node to exhaust its heap memory. The node can become unresponsive or terminate.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • Elastic Elasticsearch

    From 8.0.0 · through 8.19.23; From 9.0.0 · through 9.4.8; From 9.5.0 · through 9.5.5

Evidence 1

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Corrections

None so far.

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FAQ

Questions about CVE-2026-115715

Is CVE-2026-115715 being exploited?

It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and CISA's SSVC assessment does not mark exploitation as active. That does not mean it has not been attacked: vendors and researchers can report attacks before CISA lists them. No public exploit code is tracked.Source: cve.now feed data

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-115715?

Elasticsearch: from 8.0.0 through 8.19.23; from 9.0.0 through 9.4.8; from 9.5.0 through 9.5.5.Source: cve.now feed data