CVE-2026-72674: Elastic Kibana

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 9.3.0, before 9.3.8 (fixed in 9.3.8); from 9.4.0, before 9.4.4 (fixed in 9.4.4)

Published 2026-08-13. Last modified 2026-09-02.