Elasticsearch Policy: Phonetic Encoder Resource Exhaustion
CVE-2026-115715 Published on November 3, 2026
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Elasticsearch Leading to Denial of Service
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-115715 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-115715
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Affected Versions
Elasticsearch:- Version 8.0.0, <= 8.19.23 is affected.
- Version 9.0.0, <= 9.4.8 is affected.
- Version 9.5.0, <= 9.5.5 is affected.