MEDIUM 4.3 NVD

CVE-2026-102408

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Regular Expression Exponential Blowup (CAPEC-492). The E

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Regular Expression Exponential Blowup (CAPEC-492). The ES|QL CHUNK function's recursive chunking strategy accepts a list of user-supplied regular expressions used as text-splitting separators, without validating their computational complexity or bounding their execution time. An authenticated user with read access to any text-based index can submit a specially crafted regular expression that triggers catastrophic backtracking, consuming excessive CPU on Elasticsearch worker threads and degrading query throughput for other tenants on the affected node. The cluster does not crash as a result of this issue.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-22-9-4-8-and-9-5-5-security-update-esa-202

Published: 2026-10-06 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-10-06

This medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 4.3 was published on 2026-10-06 via NVD.

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