ElasticCVE-2026-72659
Elastic Kibana: denial of service
Medium6.5CVE-2026-72659 · 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). 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 versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Kibana Product | >= 8.0.0, <= 8.19.19 | No fix yet |
| >= 9.0.0, <= 9.4.4 | No 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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