Microsoft Security Response Center guidance
Vendor revision: Nov 5, 2026Release Notes
Vulnerability intelligence
CVE-2026-115715 and is rated Medium severity with a CVSS score of 6.5. It is not in the current CISA KEV record we collected. That does not prove exploitation has not occurred.
Release Notes
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Elasticsearch can lead to denial of service via a specially crafted input value that is processed by an affected phonetic encoder of the analysis-phonetic plugin. An authenticated user with permission to write documents to or run searches against an index that uses an affected encoder can cause an Elasticsearch node to exhaust its heap memory.
The node can become unresponsive or terminate.
Source: NVD