CVE-2026-72659CWE-770denial-of-service

CVE-2026-72659

Medium · published August 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A specially crafted, malformed payload submitted to a Kibana visualization feature by an authenticated user holding only low-privileged access is not correctly validated before use. Processing the request causes unbounded memory growth in the Kibana process, which is terminated by the host once available memory is exhausted. Kibana then becomes unavailable to all users until the service is restarted.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00420 · 35.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-08-14T00:17Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
elastic/kibana≥ 8.0.0, < 8.19.208.19.20
elastic/kibana≥ 9.0.0, < 9.4.59.4.5
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 AUG 19:12Z
    Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
    cvelistv5