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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-72659

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). A specially crafted, malformed payload submitted to a Kibana visualization feature by an authenticated user holding only low-privileged access is not correctly validated before use. Processing the request causes unbounded memory growth in the Kibana process, which is terminated by the host once available memory is exhausted. Kibana then becomes unavailable to all users until the service is restarted.

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

  • 8.0.0 to ≤ 8.19.19affected
  • 9.0.0 to ≤ 9.4.4affected

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