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ElasticCVE-2026-72651

Elastic Kibana: denial of service

Medium6.5CVE-2026-72651 · Published Aug 13, 2026 · updated Sep 2, 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 with read-only privileges to the alerting feature could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. A single request is sufficient to leave Kibana unable to serve requests for all users until the process is restarted.

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Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Kibana
Product
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.19.19No fix yet
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.4.4No 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-770

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