Microsoft advisory for CVE-2026-63136
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📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2026-63136
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.5 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- No fix is confirmed yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for the fix.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A user with search privileges can submit a specially crafted search request that causes a data node to exhaust available heap memory, resulting in node unavailability and cluster degradation. An attacker could leverage this vulnerability to cause cluster downtime requiring manual intervention to restore service.
Published by Elastic, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2026-63136, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).