{"answers":{"affected":"1 open source package ship an affected version, including elasticsearch. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72679 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade elasticsearch to a fixed version for your release line: 8.19.20 or 9.4.5.","what":"CVE-2026-72679 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 13 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72679 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72679 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Elasticsearch, published on 13 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72679 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- elasticsearch (Bitnami): affected from 8.19.0; fixed in 8.19.20, 9.4.5\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72679/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72679/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72679","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72679/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72679","record":{"aliases":["BIT-elasticsearch-2026-72679","CLEANSTART-2026-RH85110","CLEANSTART-2026-SY87191","GHSA-3w2j-qqf9-7gjm","MINI-24f4-g97m-833m","MINI-35g2-r26j-9fgr","MINI-4437-5m88-r627","MINI-49qj-7v5w-438c","MINI-4m6h-j45m-jc7m","MINI-69qx-p9cq-gm9f","MINI-6x6r-cg9j-wg36","MINI-8c36-8phr-v7p3","MINI-g673-cjcv-2g28","MINI-j5vj-c836-2px5","MINI-mcm8-6h8h-8v5m","MINI-qpqm-49xj-j3xm","MINI-rfqh-4m65-4hqw","MINI-rhvm-939f-gjqp","MINI-w4ph-4m4h-x6hw","MINI-wqh8-x7jv-9cx6","MINI-wqpg-wjv6-7cgc"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Elasticsearch search engine","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An authenticated user with read-only access can cause a denial of service in Elasticsearch by submitting a deeply nested intervals query pattern.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"denial_of_service"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"elastic","cpe":[{"product":"elasticsearch","vendor":"elastic"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-674","name":"Uncontrolled Recursion"}],"description":"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 causing a denial of service for that node. An authenticated user holding only read-only privileges on a single searchable index can trigger the condition with one small search request.","ecosystems":["Bitnami"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Uncontrolled Recursion in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service","id":"CVE-2026-72679","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","product":"elastic:elasticsearch","products":["elastic:elasticsearch"],"type":"denial_of_service","year":"2026"},"n_packages":1,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Agent Builder Leading to Unauthorized Data Modification","id":"CVE-2026-72680"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["8.19.20","9.4.5"],"introduced":["8.19.0","9.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"elasticsearch","purl":"pkg:bitnami/elasticsearch","source":"BIT-elasticsearch-2026-72679"}],"prev":{"headline":"Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service","id":"CVE-2026-72678"},"products":["Elasticsearch"],"published":"2026-08-13","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Elasticsearch Groovy Scripting Engine Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2015-1427","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2015-02-17"},{"cvss_score":8.1,"headline":"Elasticsearch Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2014-3120","kev_date_added":"2022-03-25","published":"2014-07-28"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2015-5377","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-03-06"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Deserialization of Untrusted Data in Elasticsearch Leading to Remote Code Execution","id":"CVE-2026-72649","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-09-01"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the Elasticsearch Machine Learning Native Inference Process","id":"CVE-2026-72642","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-08-13"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Privilege Escalation Flaw in Elasticsearch","id":"CVE-2020-7014","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-06-03"},{"cvss_score":8.8,"headline":"Improper Privilege Management in Elasticsearch","id":"CVE-2020-7009","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2020-03-31"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"Bitnami","prefix":"BIT"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-13","vendors":["Elastic"]},"summary":"An authenticated user with read-only access can cause a denial of service in Elasticsearch by submitting a deeply nested intervals query pattern.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72679/"}