diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchAction.java b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchAction.java
index 146b4010af4b3..c9054bd59b975 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchAction.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/opensearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchAction.java
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@
 import org.opensearch.common.util.concurrent.OpenSearchExecutors;
 import org.opensearch.core.action.ActionListener;
 import org.opensearch.core.common.io.stream.Writeable;
+import org.opensearch.core.tasks.TaskId;
+import org.opensearch.tasks.CancellableTask;
 import org.opensearch.tasks.Task;
 import org.opensearch.threadpool.ThreadPool;
 import org.opensearch.transport.TransportService;
@@ -193,7 +195,7 @@ private void handleResponse(final int responseSlot, final MultiSearchResponse.It
                 if (responseCounter.decrementAndGet() == 0) {
                     assert requests.isEmpty();
                     finish();
-                } else {
+                } else if (isCancelled(request.request.getParentTask()) == false) {
                     if (thread == Thread.currentThread()) {
                         // we are on the same thread, we need to fork to another thread to avoid recursive stack overflow on a single thread
                         threadPool.generic()
@@ -220,6 +222,14 @@ private long buildTookInMillis() {
         });
     }
 
+    private boolean isCancelled(TaskId taskId) {
+        if (taskId.isSet()) {
+            CancellableTask task = taskManager.getCancellableTask(taskId.getId());
+            return task != null && task.isCancelled();
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
     /**
      * Slots a search request
      *
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchActionTests.java b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchActionTests.java
index 48970e2b96add..45980e7137ce4 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchActionTests.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/opensearch/action/search/TransportMultiSearchActionTests.java
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@
 import org.opensearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.opensearch.core.action.ActionListener;
 import org.opensearch.search.internal.InternalSearchResponse;
+import org.opensearch.tasks.CancellableTask;
 import org.opensearch.tasks.Task;
+import org.opensearch.tasks.TaskListener;
 import org.opensearch.tasks.TaskManager;
 import org.opensearch.telemetry.tracing.noop.NoopTracer;
 import org.opensearch.test.OpenSearchTestCase;
@@ -62,7 +64,9 @@
 import java.util.IdentityHashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Set;
+import java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch;
 import java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService;
+import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference;
 
@@ -289,4 +293,118 @@ public void testDefaultMaxConcurrentSearches() {
         assertThat(result, equalTo(1));
     }
 
+    public void testCancellation() {
+        // Initialize dependencies of TransportMultiSearchAction
+        Settings settings = Settings.builder().put("node.name", TransportMultiSearchActionTests.class.getSimpleName()).build();
+        ActionFilters actionFilters = mock(ActionFilters.class);
+        when(actionFilters.filters()).thenReturn(new ActionFilter[0]);
+        ThreadPool threadPool = new ThreadPool(settings);
+        TransportService transportService = new TransportService(
+            Settings.EMPTY,
+            mock(Transport.class),
+            threadPool,
+            TransportService.NOOP_TRANSPORT_INTERCEPTOR,
+            boundAddress -> DiscoveryNode.createLocal(settings, boundAddress.publishAddress(), UUIDs.randomBase64UUID()),
+            null,
+            Collections.emptySet(),
+            NoopTracer.INSTANCE
+        ) {
+            @Override
+            public TaskManager getTaskManager() {
+                return taskManager;
+            }
+        };
+        ClusterService clusterService = mock(ClusterService.class);
+        when(clusterService.state()).thenReturn(ClusterState.builder(new ClusterName("test")).build());
+
+        // Keep track of the number of concurrent searches started by multi search api,
+        // and if there are more searches than is allowed create an error and remember that.
+        int maxAllowedConcurrentSearches = 1; // Allow 1 search at a time.
+        AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger();
+        AtomicReference<AssertionError> errorHolder = new AtomicReference<>();
+        // randomize whether or not requests are executed asynchronously
+        ExecutorService executorService = threadPool.executor(ThreadPool.Names.GENERIC);
+        final Set<SearchRequest> requests = Collections.newSetFromMap(Collections.synchronizedMap(new IdentityHashMap<>()));
+        CountDownLatch countDownLatch = new CountDownLatch(1);
+        CancellableTask[] parentTask = new CancellableTask[1];
+        NodeClient client = new NodeClient(settings, threadPool) {
+            @Override
+            public void search(final SearchRequest request, final ActionListener<SearchResponse> listener) {
+                if (parentTask[0] != null && parentTask[0].isCancelled()) {
+                    fail("Should not execute search after parent task is cancelled");
+                }
+                try {
+                    countDownLatch.await(10, TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS);
+                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
+                    throw new RuntimeException(e);
+                }
+
+                requests.add(request);
+                executorService.execute(() -> {
+                    counter.decrementAndGet();
+                    listener.onResponse(
+                        new SearchResponse(
+                            InternalSearchResponse.empty(),
+                            null,
+                            0,
+                            0,
+                            0,
+                            0L,
+                            ShardSearchFailure.EMPTY_ARRAY,
+                            SearchResponse.Clusters.EMPTY
+                        )
+                    );
+                });
+            }
+
+            @Override
+            public String getLocalNodeId() {
+                return "local_node_id";
+            }
+        };
+
+        TransportMultiSearchAction action = new TransportMultiSearchAction(
+            threadPool,
+            actionFilters,
+            transportService,
+            clusterService,
+            10,
+            System::nanoTime,
+            client
+        );
+
+        // Execute the multi search api and fail if we find an error after executing:
+        try {
+            /*
+             * Allow for a large number of search requests in a single batch as previous implementations could stack overflow if the number
+             * of requests in a single batch was large
+             */
+            int numSearchRequests = scaledRandomIntBetween(1024, 8192);
+            MultiSearchRequest multiSearchRequest = new MultiSearchRequest();
+            multiSearchRequest.maxConcurrentSearchRequests(maxAllowedConcurrentSearches);
+            for (int i = 0; i < numSearchRequests; i++) {
+                multiSearchRequest.add(new SearchRequest());
+            }
+            MultiSearchResponse[] responses = new MultiSearchResponse[1];
+            Exception[] exceptions = new Exception[1];
+            parentTask[0] = (CancellableTask) action.execute(multiSearchRequest, new TaskListener<>() {
+                @Override
+                public void onResponse(Task task, MultiSearchResponse items) {
+                    responses[0] = items;
+                }
+
+                @Override
+                public void onFailure(Task task, Exception e) {
+                    exceptions[0] = e;
+                }
+            });
+            parentTask[0].cancel("Giving up");
+            countDownLatch.countDown();
+
+            assertNull(responses[0]);
+            assertNull(exceptions[0]);
+        } finally {
+            assertTrue(OpenSearchTestCase.terminate(threadPool));
+        }
+    }
 }