Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset in the Elasticsearch Machine Learning Native Inference Process (Elastic Elasticsearch)

CVE-2026-72642
HIGH 8.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.60 % · percentile 49 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
elastic
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

The native inference process that Elasticsearch uses to evaluate uploaded machine learning models accepts a model operation that computes a memory address from an offset supplied inside the model, without validating that the offset stays within the bounds of the underlying storage. A user with the privileges required to upload and deploy a trained model can craft a model that reads and writes memory outside the intended allocation. The result is heap corruption that crashes the inference process, and, with sufficient control over the heap layout, could allow arbitrary code execution in the context of that process.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-823 — Use of Out-of-range Pointer Offset

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Helastic
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary)

European references

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Elastic · Elasticsearchaffected 8.19.0 ≤ 8.19.19 ; affected 9.4.0 ≤ 9.4.4 ; affected 9.5.0

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD