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Kibana EUVDEUVD-2026-69561

| CVE-2026-72682 MEDIUM
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770)
2026-09-01 elastic GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94
6.5
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: elastic
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Access
    Obtain low-privilege Agent Builder credentials
  2. Delivery
    Craft memory-exhausting request payload
  3. Exploit
    Submit request to Kibana Agent Builder API endpoint
  4. Execution
    Kibana allocates memory without throttling
  5. Persist
    Node.js heap exhausted, process terminates
  6. Impact
    All users denied service until manual restart

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A06:2025 - Insecure Design
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Resource allocation limits
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Impact

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Requires an authenticated session with at least low-privilege Agent Builder access (PR:L per CVSS vector). The Agent Builder feature must be accessible to the user account - this is a standard Kibana role, not a non-default configuration. No elevated administrator rights are needed. The key limiting factor is valid credential possession with Agent Builder role assignment; unauthenticated users or users without Agent Builder privileges cannot exploit this vulnerability. No specific platform, operating system, or non-default configuration is required beyond a running Kibana instance where the attacker holds Agent Builder role access.

Impact

The CVSS 3.1 score of 6.5 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H) accurately characterizes the threat profile: the attack is trivially executable over the network with no complexity, but the PR:L constraint - requiring valid Agent Builder credentials - is the meaningful limiting factor. In practice, the blast radius scales with how broadly Agent Builder access is granted; any organization running Kibana as a shared platform where read-level access is distributed widely faces a credible insider or compromised-account threat. No EPSS data was supplied, and the vulnerability is not listed in the CISA KEV catalog, suggesting no confirmed active exploitation at time of analysis. No public exploit code has been identified. The scope is bounded to availability (A:H) with no confidentiality or integrity impact, making this a targeted denial-of-service risk rather than a data-exposure concern. Despite the moderate CVSS, shared Kibana instances serving multiple teams could suffer significant operational disruption, and even a mid-sized operations team should treat patching as a near-term priority given the low bar for exploitation once credentials are obtained.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An attacker who has obtained valid Kibana credentials with read-level Agent Builder access - through phishing, credential stuffing, or insider access - submits a single specially crafted HTTP request to the Agent Builder API endpoint. Kibana begins allocating memory without bound in response to the malicious payload, rapidly exhausting the Node.js heap. The process terminates, making the entire Kibana instance unavailable to all users until an operator manually restarts the service.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.3% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Sep 01, 2026

Unbounded memory allocation in Kibana's Agent Builder feature allows any authenticated user with minimal read-level privileges to crash the Kibana process, denying service to all users of the affected instance. The vulnerability stems from CWE-770 (no resource throttling), meaning a single low-privileged user can trigger full process termination via one crafted request. Elastic has addressed this in Kibana 9.4.6 via security advisory ESA-2026-84; no public exploit or active exploitation has been identified at time of analysis.

RemediationAI

Upgrade to Kibana 9.4.6, which addresses this vulnerability per Elastic security advisory ESA-2026-84 at https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-6-security-update-esa-2026-84/390054. If an immediate upgrade is not feasible, restrict Agent Builder role assignments to only explicitly trusted users - removing read-level Agent Builder access from broad user groups eliminates the attack surface, though this may impact workflows that rely on that feature. Additionally, consider deploying resource limits at the process or container level (e.g., Node.js --max-old-space-size, Kubernetes memory limits with restart policies) as a compensating control; note this mitigates impact severity but does not prevent the crash, and aggressive limits may cause instability under legitimate load spikes.

Affected VersionsENISA

Kibana 9.3.0 ≤9.4.5

Affected Packages

euvd kibana no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Kibana is Elastic's primary visualization and management interface for the Elastic Stack, commonly deployed as a shared service in enterprise observability and SIEM environments. CWE-770 (Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling) indicates the root cause: a code path within the Agent Builder feature processes attacker-controlled input without imposing upper bounds on heap memory allocation. CAPEC-130 (Excessive Allocation) describes the exploitation pattern - the attacker provides input crafted to maximize resource consumption. Because Kibana runs as a Node.js process with a fixed heap ceiling, unbounded allocation terminates the process entirely rather than degrading gracefully. The CPE cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* encompasses all versions, with the fix landing in 9.4.6 per the Elastic advisory.

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Severity by source

Vendor (elastic) PRIMARY 6.5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
vuln.today AI 6.5 MEDIUM

Network-reachable DoS requiring only low-privilege Agent Builder credentials; no confidentiality or integrity impact; availability impact is complete for the Kibana process.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (elastic).

CVSS VectorVendor: elastic

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

DescriptionCVE.org

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding only low, read-level Agent Builder privileges could submit a specially crafted request that causes Kibana to consume an unbounded amount of memory, terminating the process and denying service to all users of the instance.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.3%
Top 79% exploitable
Prevalence
High
widely deployed enterprise observability, SIEM, and log analysis platform
Data Quality
4 sources
Confidence: Medium

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.3%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

32
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +32
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Denial of Service attacks render applications or systems unavailable by overwhelming resources or triggering failure conditions.

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