Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding only low, read-level Agent Builder privileges could submit a specially crafted request that causes Kibana to consume an unbounded amount of memory, terminating the process and denying service to all users of the instance.
History

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 01:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Elastic
Elastic kibana
Vendors & Products Elastic
Elastic kibana

Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Description Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding only low, read-level Agent Builder privileges could submit a specially crafted request that causes Kibana to consume an unbounded amount of memory, terminating the process and denying service to all users of the instance.
Title Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-01T19:38:37.348Z

Reserved: 2026-08-10T11:17:58.730Z

Link: CVE-2026-72682

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-01T19:38:34.716Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-09-01T20:17:17.227

Modified: 2026-09-02T14:22:42.640

Link: CVE-2026-72682

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-02T01:45:05Z