CVE details
CVE-2026-72653
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 who is authorized to manage maintenance windows could submit a specially crafted, malformed payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources. Kibana becomes unresponsive for all users and does not recover without manual intervention.
- Score
- 6.5 medium
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Links
- NVD · cve.org · Report wrong data
Matched ports (5)
| Port | Package | Version | Status | Maintainer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| textproc/kibana91 | kibana91 | 9.1.10 | unaddressed | elastic@FreeBSD.org |
| textproc/kibana92 | kibana92 | 9.2.8 | unaddressed | elastic@FreeBSD.org |
| textproc/kibana8 | kibana8 | 8.19.21 | fixed by update | elastic@FreeBSD.org |
| textproc/kibana93 | kibana93 | 9.3.8 | fixed by update | elastic@FreeBSD.org |
| textproc/kibana94 | kibana94 | 9.4.7 | fixed by update | elastic@FreeBSD.org |
Template for a VuXML entry
Range taken from the CVE record, check it before committing. make newentry in security/vuxml creates the vid.
<vuln vid="FIXME (make newentry)">
<topic>FIXME -- FIXME</topic>
<affects>
<package>
<name>kibana91</name>
<range><lt>8.19.19</lt></range>
</package>
<package>
<name>kibana92</name>
<range><lt>8.19.19</lt></range>
</package>
</affects>
<description>
<body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<p>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 who is authorized to manage
maintenance windows could submit a specially crafted, malformed
payload that causes the Kibana process to consume excessive resources.
Kibana becomes unresponsive for all users and does not recover without
manual intervention.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2026-72653</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72653</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2026-08-13</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-26</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>