Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via Exponential Data Expansion (CAPEC-197). An authenticated user may submit a specially crafted query to the ES|QL engine that causes exponential CPU consumption during query evaluation. Because the resource exhaustion persists beyond query completion, repeated requests can fully exhaust the available query worker resources, rendering ES|QL queries unavailable until the node is restarted.
Exploitability
AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NScope
S:UImpact
C:NI:NA:H6.5/CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HResource Management