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ElasticCVE-2026-72628

Elastic Kibana: denial of service

Medium6.5CVE-2026-72628 · Published Sep 1, 2026 · updated Sep 2, 2026

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (CWE-409) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding Streams management privileges could supply specially crafted content that expands to a far larger volume of data during processing, exhausting the memory available to Kibana. The Kibana process is terminated by the host and remains unavailable to all users until the service is restarted.

Elastic advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Kibana
Product
>= 8.19.0, <= 8.19.20No fix yet
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.4.5No fix yet
>= 9.5.0, <= 9.5.1No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-409

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