CVE-2026-72651
mediumpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.004 · 36 %ileDEEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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 with read-only privileges to the alerting feature could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. A single request is sufficient to leave Kibana unable to serve requests for all users until the process is restarted.
cvss
Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
ssvc
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weaknesses
The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.
affected products (16)
Products and version ranges known to be affected.
advisories (3)
Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.
- WID-SEC-W-2026-2824Kibana: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-08-12csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Kibana ausnutzen, um vertrauliche Informationen einschließlich Zugangsdaten offenzulegen, Daten und Konfigurationen zu manipulieren, Berechtigungen zu umgehen und einen Denial of Service zu verursachen.
- BIT-elk-2026-72651Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service2026-08-19vendor · osvUS
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 with read-only privileges to the alerting feature could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. A single request is sufficient to leave Kibana unable to serve requests for all users until the process is restarted.
- BIT-kibana-2026-72651Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service2026-08-19vendor · osvUS
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 with read-only privileges to the alerting feature could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. A single request is sufficient to leave Kibana unable to serve requests for all users until the process is restarted.
also known as (5)
Other names and identifiers for this entity.
- CNNVD-2026-75871742cnnvd
- EUVD-2026-58276enisa_euvd
- GHSA-3fq3-9257-ppm7enisa_euvd
- BIT-elk-2026-72651osv
- BIT-kibana-2026-72651osv
sources
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references (4)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-106/389522cnnvd
- https://www.elastic.co/downloads/kibanaPatchcnnvd
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-106/389522enisa_euvd
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-106/389522Vendor Advisorynvd
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