Assessment
Why it matters
EPSS is 0.3%; technical severity is CVSS 6.5.
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user with viewer-level access can submit a request containing an oversized input value to an analytics collections management endpoint. Kibana will consume excessive CPU and memory resources while processing the request. This results in Kibana becoming unavailable to all users until the service is manually recovered.
Who should care
- Teams operating Kibana
- Vulnerability and exposure management teams
- Security operations teams monitoring exploitation activity
Response plan
What I would do
- Confirm whether Kibana is present in the environment.
- Identify affected versions and establish whether vulnerable services are exposed or reachable.
- Vendor advisory from discuss.elastic.co
- Review relevant security telemetry for evidence of attempted or successful exploitation.
- Document the remediation decision and track it to verified completion.
Treatment intelligence
Remediation intelligence
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Technical details
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-400
- Affected versions
- Elastic Kibana (Start Including 8.0.0, End Excluding 8.19.16)
- Fixed versions
- Elastic Kibana (Fixed from 8.19.16)
- Published
- 28 May 2026
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
Signal timeline
- CVE published
- Latest EPSS score: 0.3%
- Signal calculated at 11