CVE-2026-42400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130).
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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user can send a specially crafted compressed request payload that is processed prior to authorization checks, causing excessive memory and CPU resource consumption that can result in a Kibana instance becoming unresponsive or crashing.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-400
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Not given
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
elastic kibana elastic:kibana | from 8.0.0 before 8.19.16; from 9.0.0 before 9.3.5; from 9.4.0 before 9.4.2 | NVD |
References
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-16-9-3-5-9-4-2-security-update-esa-2026-35/386554vendor-advisory
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