Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) causing a persistent denial of service (OOM crash) via submission of oversized user settings data.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elastic / elasticsearch | 7.0.0 | 7.17.29.x |
| elastic / elasticsearch | 8.0.0 | 8.19.9 |
| elastic / elasticsearch | 9.0.0 | 9.1.9 |
| elastic / elasticsearch | 9.2.0 | 9.2.3 |