# CVE-2026-115715: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-116080, GHSA-WJ87-446P-485M
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-11-03 · Updated: 2026-11-03

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.

## 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.

Model-written summary (anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5). Verify details against the original sources.

## Affected

- 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

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Elastic Elasticsearch, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## FAQ

### 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: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-115715

### 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: https://cve.now/CVE-2026-115715

## Related

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## References

- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-24-9-4-9-9-5-6-security-update-esa-2026-235/391372

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