CVE-2026-75897
Unbounded payload allows DoS in OpenSearch Dashboards capabilities route.
Is CVE-2026-75897 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-75897 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.50% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-75897?
CVE-2026-75897 is rated High with a CVSS score of 8.7. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-75897?
Not known from our data. No patch reference has been recorded for CVE-2026-75897, which is not the same as no patch existing — a fix may have shipped without a tagged reference, or after this record was written. The vendor advisory is the only authority on whether a fix exists, and mitigations may be available regardless.
What does CVE-2026-75897 affect?
CVE-2026-75897 affects OpenSearch Dashboards (capabilities route). Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-75897?
Apply vendor patch when released; block/limit large HTTP payloads and add WAF/rate limits.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Remote denial-of-service: crafted HTTP requests with unbounded payloads can exhaust resources or crash OpenSearch Dashboards, disrupting dashboards/monitoring.
Patch when possible
- affected>= 1.3 and <= 3.5
- affected>= 1.3 and <= 3.7.0
As published in the CVE Program record. A version outside these ranges is not a statement that it is unaffected — vendors sometimes understate a range, and distribution-backported builds carry upstream numbers that do not reflect what was patched into them.