VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2026-72653

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.42%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2026-08-13
Last modified2026-10-24
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • security@elastic.co: CWE-770

Primary references