CVE-2026-72636 Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Wildcard Matching Leading to Denial of Service

Uncontrolled Recursion CWE-674 in the Elasticsearch wildcard matching helper can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130. The matcher used to resolve wildcard patterns against names is implemented recursively and had no bound on recursion depth or on the total number of mat...

Elasticsearch 8.19.20, 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-133)

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Wildcard Matching Leading to Denial of Service Description: Uncontrolled Recursion CWE-674 in the Elasticsearch wildcard matching helper can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation CAPEC-130. The matcher used to resolve wildcard patterns agains...