CVE-2026-72653

Summary

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
ElasticKibana8.12.0 <= 8.19.18affected
ElasticKibana9.0.0 <= 9.3.7affected
ElasticKibana9.4.0 <= 9.4.3affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-770: CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

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

References