{"id":"CVE-2026-94398","title":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130)","summary":"Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130)","severity":"medium","cvss":6.5,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","cwe":["CWE-400"],"vendor":"Elastic","product":"Elasticsearch","affected":["Elasticsearch >= 8.12.0 <= 8.19.21","Elasticsearch >= 9.0.0 <= 9.4.6","Elasticsearch >= 9.5.0 <= 9.5.3"],"published":"2026-09-26","updated":"2026-09-26","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-26T23:16:40.137","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-94398","references":[{"url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-22-9-4-7-9-5-4-security-update-esa-2026-179/390683","label":"security@elastic.co"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"partial","timestamp":"2026-09-26T23:00:17.057160Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-26T21:38:01.504Z","slug":"CVE-2026-94398","body":"## Overview\n\nUncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130)\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":36,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":35.8,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}