CVE-2025-68389 Kibana Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
A low-privileged authenticated user can cause a denial of service in Kibana by sending crafted HTTP requests that trigger excessive resource allocation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-68389?
CVE-2025-68389 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 18 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of computing resources and a denial of service (DoS) of the Kibana process via a crafted HTTP request.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68389?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kibana and elk. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
kibana Bitnami | All versions | 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3 |
elk Bitnami | All versions | 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3 |
Products include Elastic Kibana.
How do I fix CVE-2025-68389?
Upgrade kibana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.19.9, 9.1.9 or 9.2.3.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-68389 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68389 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Sources
Also known as BIT-elk-2025-68389, BIT-kibana-2025-68389, GHSA-pqm3-5mc5-3xcm, MINI-2fmc-89x6-9r5m, MINI-2j72-hh8c-937j, MINI-4gjg-67wc-xqxr and 3 more.