CVE-2026-56148

Publication date 2 July 2026

Last updated 2 July 2026


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can submit a specially crafted query that causes excessive resource consumption while the request is processed, which may render the affected node unavailable.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
elasticsearch 26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.5 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H


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