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...