Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 2, 2026· Updated Sep 2, 2026

CVE-2026-78586

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 with low-level privileges could submit a specially crafted request that causes Kibana to consume an unbounded amount of memory, rendering it unavailable to all users.

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Affected products

Elastic/Kibanallm-fuzzy

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-16-9-3-5-9-4-2-security-update-esa-2026-163/390116nvd

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