Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 13, 2026· Updated Sep 2, 2026
CVE-2026-72651
CVE-2026-72651
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 with read-only privileges to the alerting feature could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. A single request is sufficient to leave Kibana unable to serve requests for all users until the process is restarted.
AI Insight
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Affected products
3- osv-coords2 versions
>= 8.0.0, < 8.19.20+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: >= 8.0.0, < 8.19.20
- (no CPE)range: >= 8.0.0, < 8.19.20
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
1News mentions
1- Elastic Kibana: 25 Coordinated Vulnerabilities Expose Authorization and DoS RisksVypr Intelligence · Aug 13, 2026