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ElasticCVE-2026-78586

Elastic Kibana: denial of service

Medium6.5CVE-2026-78586 · Published Sep 2, 2026 · updated Sep 3, 2026

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user with low-level privileges could submit a specially crafted request that causes Kibana to consume an unbounded amount of memory, rendering it unavailable to all users.

Elastic advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Kibana
Product
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.19.15No fix yet
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.3.4No fix yet
>= 9.4.0, <= 9.4.1No 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-770

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