CVE-2026-72679 Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service

Elasticsearch does not apply its configurable input length restriction to a user-supplied pattern accepted by an intervals query. Compiling a deeply nested pattern drives unbounded recursion that exhausts the thread stack and raises a fatal error, terminating the Elasticsearch node process and...

Elasticsearch 8.19.20, 9.4.5 Security Update (ESA-2026-81)

Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service Elasticsearch does not apply its configurable input length restriction to a user-supplied pattern accepted by an intervals query. Compiling a deeply nested pattern drives unbounded recursion that exhausts the thread stack and...