CVE-2026-72682 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
An authenticated user with low privileges can cause Kibana to consume unbounded memory, crashing the service and denying access to all users.
- 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-2026-72682?
CVE-2026-72682 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 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.
Weakness: CWE-770
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-72682?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Elastic Kibana.
How do I fix CVE-2026-72682?
Apply the vendor's patch.
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-2026-72682 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72682 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Sources
Also known as GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94, MINI-227m-4wpr-pj52, MINI-jwp8-vgx9-29m3.