TI-2026-50891 Aliases CVE-2026-72653 GHSA-5642-j255-rj32

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service

LOW 29CWE-770Published 2026-08-13 · Updated 2026-08-13

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: None · None · High
Fix status: No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-770.

Summary

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.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.0042 36th percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: None
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Elastic	Kibana	8.12.0 – 8.19.18; 9.0.0 – 9.3.7; 9.4.0 – 9.4.3	—	No fix listed	CNA

Kibana VendorElastic Affected 8.12.0 – 8.19.18; 9.0.0 – 9.3.7; 9.4.0 – 9.4.3 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana::::::::	8.12.0 to before 8.19.19; 9.0.0 to before 9.3.8; 9.4.0 to before 9.4.4	Vulnerable	Elastic

cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 8.12.0 to before 8.19.19; 9.0.0 to before 9.3.8; 9.4.0 to before 9.4.4 Vulnerable ·Elastic

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72653
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-5642-j255-rj32

References

Advisory 1

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

TI-2019-05363 Code injection in Elastic Kibana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2018-12328 Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2025-18692 Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2020-05660 Code injection in Elastic Kibana CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
TI-2024-24803 Deserialization of untrusted data in Elastic Kibana CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
TI-2024-24800 Kibana arbitrary code execution via YAML deserialization CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1

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Sources

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