CVE-2026-72651 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service

CVE-2026-72651

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

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Elastic / Kibana	affected 8.0.0 through 8.19.19; affected 9.0.0 through 9.4.4

CWE

CWE-770

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-106/389522

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.