medium6.5
CVE-2026-72651
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130).
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Kibana | from 8.0.0 before 8.19.20 from 9.0.0 before 9.4.5 |