CVE-2026-33465 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service

What is CVE-2026-33465?

CVE-2026-33465 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 1 Sep 2026. 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 lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user with low-level permissions could submit a specially crafted request that causes excessive resource consumption, which may render Kibana unavailable.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-33465?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Kibana.

How do I fix CVE-2026-33465?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

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-2026-33465 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-33465 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana

• CVE-2019-7609 Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-25015 Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-37288 Deserialization in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2023-31415 Code injection in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2018-17245 Information disclosure in Kibana Critical 9.8

All Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-wr99-r6hj-fv7j, MINI-7m6c-8cvj-rfcj, MINI-9m97-5f56-3hw5, MINI-f9j9-9wmp-wr69, MINI-h37q-w7xw-hcgh, MINI-q4m9-4xhw-hxw4.