What is GHSA-5h86-ph4p-6p7w?

GHSA-5h86-ph4p-6p7w is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-5h86-ph4p-6p7w cover?

GHSA-5h86-ph4p-6p7w covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-56145. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-5h86-ph4p-6p7w?

GHSA-5h86-ph4p-6p7w has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-5h86-ph4p-6p7wMediumCVSS 6.5

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

July 21, 2026

Last Modified

July 21, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-56145 →

📋 Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A low-privileged authenticated user with permission to execute EQL sequence queries against an index they control can send a specially crafted query that triggers excessive memory consumption, causing the Elasticsearch node to crash.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-56145
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elasticsearch-8-19-18-9-3-7-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-57/388556
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5h86-ph4p-6p7w