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CVE-2026-63263 json

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

published 3mo ago modified 18d ago also BIT-elasticsearch-2026-63263 , EUVD-2026-47591

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Exponential Data Expansion (CAPEC-197). An authenticated user may submit a specially crafted query to the ES|QL engine that causes exponential CPU consumption during query evaluation. Because the resource exhaustion persists beyond query completion, repeated requests can fully exhaust the available query worker resources, rendering ES|QL queries unavailable until the node is restarted.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami elasticsearch 8.19.19, 9.3.8, 9.4.4
  • elastic elasticsearch 8.19.19, 9.3.8, 9.4.4
  • elasticsearch elasticsearch 8.19.19, 9.3.8, 9.4.4
  • org.elasticsearch elasticsearch 8.19.19, 9.3.8, 9.4.4

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
3mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.47% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami elasticsearch
>=8.0.0, <8.19.19
>=9.0.0, <9.3.8
>=9.4.0, <9.4.4
8.19.19
9.3.8
9.4.4

Affected products

  • Elastic Elasticsearch

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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