CVE-2026-63263
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium
- Status
- Analyzed - security@elastic.co
- Published
- 2026-07-21
- Last modified
- 2026-10-24
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Affected products
References
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-19-9-3-8-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-74/388577
