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FKIE_CVE-2026-72674

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-13 20:17 - Updated: 2026-09-02 14:09
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A user-supplied list of document fields accepted by the Kibana Playground for RAG feature was neither bounded in length nor de-duplicated before it was used to assemble the response for each matching document. A single crafted request could therefore make Kibana build a response far larger than the data it was derived from, and the resulting processing and memory pressure exhausts the resources of the Kibana instance.
References
security@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-3-8-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-91/389533Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elastic kibana *
elastic kibana *
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