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CVE-2026-72682

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductElastic Kibana
PublishedSep 1, 2026
First seenSep 1, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-770Allocation of resources without limits

How to fix

Update
  • elastic kibana9.4.6 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
elastic kibana9.3.0 ≤ v < 9.4.69.4.6

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