CVE-2026-72653

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

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Aug 13, 2026
Updated: Aug 13, 2026
Reserved: Aug 10, 2026

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KibanaElastic	8.12.0 through 8.19.18Affected 9.0.0 through 9.3.7Affected 9.4.0 through 9.4.3Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-19-9-3-8-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-108/389514

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