Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 13, 2026· Updated Aug 13, 2026

CVE-2026-72653

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 products

Elastic/Kibanallm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-19-9-3-8-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-108/389514nvd

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