CVE-2026-94398

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-94398
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-94398.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-94398
Aliases
Downstream
CGA (12)
CLEANSTART (4)
MINI (21)
Published
2026-09-26T20:42:18Z
Modified
2026-10-28T11:19:51Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to denial of service
Details

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130)

Database specific 
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References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/elastic/elasticsearch

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch
Events
Introduced
1665f706fd9354802c02146c1e6b5c0fbcddfbc9
Fixed
3b2a41103de35e0af4064d647974032fcc1bcde9
Introduced
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Fixed
9093bd876e86f531329aad3704ec9ab607c909c8
Introduced
8d4246a64bc255212407b1b313fe402391299c88
Fixed
9170df19cae1adb107b7b489b4d82dec66d7a337
Database specific
Show details 
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Affected versions

v9.*
v9.5.0
v9.5.1
v9.5.2
v9.5.3

Database specific

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