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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-72653 EUVD-2026-58277GHSA-5642-j255-rj32

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

Published Aug 13, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 2026 · Assigned by elastic

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Kibana 8.12.0 – ≤ 8.19.18, 9.0.0 – ≤ 9.3.7, 9.4.0 – ≤ 9.4.3 —

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