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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-72653

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service

Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user who is authorized to manage maintenance windows could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. Kibana becomes unresponsive for all users and does not recover without manual intervention.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Elastic Kibana

Default version status: unaffected

  • 8.12.0 to ≤ 8.19.18affected
  • 9.0.0 to ≤ 9.3.7affected
  • 9.4.0 to ≤ 9.4.3affected

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