CVE-2026-42400

Summary

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can send a specially crafted compressed request payload that is processed prior to authorization checks, causing excessive memory and CPU resource consumption that can result in a Kibana instance becoming unresponsive or crashing.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ElasticKibana9.4.0 <= 9.4.1affected
ElasticKibana9.0.0 <= 9.3.4affected
ElasticKibana8.0.0 <= 8.19.15affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References