Resource exhaustion in Elastic Kibana
CVE-2026-72674
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A user-supplied list of document fields accepted by the Kibana Playground for RAG feature was neither bounded in length nor de-duplicated before it was used to assemble the response for each matching document. A single crafted request could therefore make Kibana build a response far larger than the data it was derived from, and the resulting processing and memory pressure exhausts the resources of the Kibana instance.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.
Affected products
- Elastic Kibana — versions 9.3.0, 9.4.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2026-72674?
- CVE-2026-72674 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-13.
- How severe is CVE-2026-72674?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.