Uncontrolled Recursion (CWE-674) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted search request submitted by a low-privileged authenticated user. A user with read-level index access can submit a request that triggers unbounded recursive processing within the Elasticsearch query evaluation component, causing a fatal error that terminates the affected node. In single-node deployments, this results in complete service outage; in multi-node clusters, it causes repeated node restarts and sustained availability degradation.
CVE-2026-63144
Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-07-22. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.5
- EG Score
- 6.5(high)
- EPSS
- 14.5%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
July 21, 2026
Last Modified
July 22, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Jul 22, 2026Elasticsearch 8.19.19, 9.3.8, 9.4.4 Security Update (ESA-2026-68) - Security Announcements - Discuss the Elastic Stack
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-19-9-3-8-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-68/388571Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-63144(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 10× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-22 15:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 15:06 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-22 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-07-22 14:04 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 14:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-22 01:44 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-22 01:44 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-21 22:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-21 22:44 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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