CVE-2026-72659

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.

Published 13 Aug 2026, 20:17 UTC Last modified 13 Aug 2026, 21:18 UTC

6.5

CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM base score CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack profile

The conditions required to exploit this vulnerability and its potential impact.

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity Low

Privileges required Low

User interaction None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality None

Integrity None

Availability High

Exploitability2.8

Impact3.6

Affected products

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Weakness classification

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CWECWE-770

Source references

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NVD National Vulnerability Database recordnvd.nist.gov 01 Technical reference security@elastic.co