CVE-2026-115715
Medium
Description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted input value that is processed by an affected phonetic encoder of the analysis-phonetic plugin. An authenticated user with permission to write documents to or run searches against an index that uses an affected encoder can cause an Elasticsearch node to exhaust its heap memory. The node can become unresponsive or terminate.
SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
Product
Elasticsearch
PublishedNov 3, 2026
First seenNov 4, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-770Allocation of resources without limits
How to fix
Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.
Affected products
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic Elasticsearch | 8.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 8.19.23, 9.0.0 ≤ v ≤ 9.4.8, 9.5.0 ≤ v ≤ 9.5.5 | — |
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