{"id":"CVE-2026-72685","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-72685","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:20:02.578Z","title":"A flaw in Elasticsearch allows a low-privileged authenticated user who can index documents to submit a single small document containing a crafted user-supplied input.","description":"A flaw in Elasticsearch allows a low-privileged authenticated user who can index documents to submit a single small document containing a crafted user-supplied input. Processing one such document occupies a worker thread from a bounded pool for a disproportionate amount of time, degrading the availability of indexing operations on the affected node.","published":"2026-08-13T20:17:29.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-01T15:04:10.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"security@elastic.co","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-407"],"affected":["elastic/elasticsearch"],"epss":{"score":0.00367,"percentile":0.30331,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.37%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-20-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-77/389500","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@elastic.co"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72685","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}