{"id":"BIT-elk-2026-72651","summary":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service","details":"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 with read-only privileges to the alerting feature could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. A single request is sufficient to leave Kibana unable to serve requests for all users until the process is restarted.","aliases":["BIT-kibana-2026-72651","CVE-2026-72651"],"modified":"2026-09-08T08:47:07.886838059Z","published":"2026-08-19T08:40:25.396Z","database_specific":{"severity":"Medium","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-106/389522"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72651"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"elk","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/elk"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"8.0.0"},{"fixed":"8.19.20"},{"introduced":"9.0.0"},{"fixed":"9.4.5"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/elk/BIT-elk-2026-72651.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}