CVE-2026-72653
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CVE-2026-72653 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.5/10 on the CVSS scale. 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 who is authorized to manage maintenance windows could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. EPSS estimates a 0.29% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
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 who is authorized to manage maintenance windows could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. Kibana becomes unresponsive for all users and does not recover without manual intervention.
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Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Elastic | Kibana | >= 8.12.0, < 8.19.19 |
| Elastic | Kibana | >= 9.0.0, < 9.3.8 |
| Elastic | Kibana | >= 9.4.0, < 9.4.4 |
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