CVE-2026-72653 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: elastic
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 13.08.2026 Updated: 13.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

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

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	Elastic
Product	Kibana
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 8.12.0 to 8.19.18 (incl.) affected from 9.0.0 to 9.3.7 (incl.) affected from 9.4.0 to 9.4.3 (incl.)

References

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

Problem Types

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation