CVE-2026-102408

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-102408
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-102408.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-102408
Aliases
Downstream
CGA (10)
MINI (14)
Published
2026-10-06T19:31:39Z
Modified
2026-10-15T02:48:04Z
Severity
  • 4.3 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
Details

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Regular Expression Exponential Blowup (CAPEC-492). The ES|QL CHUNK function's recursive chunking strategy accepts a list of user-supplied regular expressions used as text-splitting separators, without validating their computational complexity or bounding their execution time. An authenticated user with read access to any text-based index can submit a specially crafted regular expression that triggers catastrophic backtracking, consuming excessive CPU on Elasticsearch worker threads and degrading query throughput for other tenants on the affected node. The cluster does not crash as a result of this issue.

Database specific
{
    "cna_assigner":  "elastic",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/102xxx/CVE-2026-102408.json",
    "unresolved_ranges":  [
        {
            "extracted_events":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "8.19.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "8.19.21"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.1.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.3.8"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.4.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.4.7"
                },
                {
                    "introduced":  "9.5.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected":  "9.5.4"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:elastic:elasticsearch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "8.19.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "8.19.22"
        },
        {
            "introduced":  "9.1.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "9.4.8"
        },
        {
            "introduced":  "9.5.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "9.5.5"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
}

Affected versions

v8.*
v8.19.0
v8.19.1
v8.19.10
v8.19.11
v8.19.12
v8.19.13
v8.19.14
v8.19.15
v8.19.16
v8.19.17
v8.19.18
v8.19.19
v8.19.2
v8.19.20
v8.19.21
v8.19.3
v8.19.4
v8.19.5
v8.19.6
v8.19.7
v8.19.8
v8.19.9
v9.*
v9.5.0
v9.5.1
v9.5.2
v9.5.3
v9.5.4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-102408.json"