Medium · published May 29, 2026
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding a low-privileged role can submit a specially crafted, oversized payload to an internal Kibana API, causing the Kibana process to exhaust available resources and become unresponsive to all users until the service recovers or is restarted.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elastic/kibana | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.19.16 | 8.19.16 |
| elastic/kibana | ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.3.5 | 9.3.5 |
| elastic/kibana | all versions | — |