Medium · published July 22, 2026
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated attacker with low-privilege access can trigger a denial of service condition in Kibana by sending a specially crafted, oversized request payload. Processing this user-supplied input requires resource-intensive memory allocation that can exhaust the available heap memory in the Kibana process, causing it to crash and become unavailable to all users.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elastic/kibana | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.19.19 | 8.19.19 |
| elastic/kibana | ≥ 9.0.0, < 9.3.8 | 9.3.8 |
| elastic/kibana | ≥ 9.4.0, < 9.4.4 | 9.4.4 |