CVE-2026-72667
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). A specially crafted request submitted by an authenticated user with minimal privileges to a validation capability of the Observability log analysis feature causes Kibana to perform an unbounded amount of concurrent work. This can exhaust the memory available to the Kibana process and make Kibana unavailable to all users until it is restarted. The severity of the outcome depends on the resources allocated to the deployment; on well-provisioned deployments a single request may cause degraded performance and elevated memory pressure rather than a full outage, but the request is inexpensive to repeat.
- 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/kibana93 | kibana93 | 9.3.8 | possibly backported | elastic@FreeBSD.org |
| textproc/kibana8 | kibana8 | 8.19.21 | 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>8.19.20</lt></range>
</package>
<package>
<name>kibana92</name>
<range><lt>8.19.20</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 a denial of service via Excessive Allocation
(CAPEC-130). A specially crafted request submitted by an authenticated
user with minimal privileges to a validation capability of the
Observability log analysis feature causes Kibana to perform an
unbounded amount of concurrent work. This can exhaust the memory
available to the Kibana process and make Kibana unavailable to all
users until it is restarted. The severity of the outcome depends on
the resources allocated to the deployment; on well-provisioned
deployments a single request may cause degraded performance and
elevated memory pressure rather than a full outage, but the request is
inexpensive to repeat.</p>
</body>
</description>
<references>
<cvename>CVE-2026-72667</cvename>
<url>https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72667</url>
</references>
<dates>
<discovery>2026-08-13</discovery>
<entry>2026-10-26</entry>
</dates>
</vuln>