Description
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.
Published: 2026-08-13
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
AI Analysis

Impact

A flaw in Kibana allows an attacker to supply an unbounded, non‑deduplicated list of document fields to the Kibana Playground’s RAG feature, causing the system to assemble an excessively large response. The resulting memory consumption can exhaust the instance’s resources, leading to degraded performance or a complete denial of service. The weakness is classified as CWE‑770, allocating resources without limits.

Affected Systems

The vulnerability affects Elastic Kibana, currently without a specific version listed in the CVE data. No affected version information is provided, so any deployment of this product should assume the risk until a patch is applied.

Risk and Exploitability

The CVSS score of 6.5 indicates a moderate severity. The EPSS score is not available, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA’s KEV catalog, suggesting the exploitation likelihood is unclear. The attack vector is inferred to be via an HTTP request to the Kibana Playground, where a crafted payload can trigger the memory exhaustion without additional privileges.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on August 13, 2026 at 21:12 UTC.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

OpenCVE Recommended Actions

  • Apply the latest Kibana update that provides a fix for the unbounded field allocation bug.
  • Adjust Kibana’s configuration to limit the number of fields processed for the RAG feature or enforce deduplication of input lists before they are used.
  • If a patch cannot be applied immediately, disable the Kibana Playground or the RAG feature that processes user‑supplied field lists and monitor memory usage to prevent service disruption.

Generated by OpenCVE AI on August 13, 2026 at 21:12 UTC.

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History

Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Elastic
Elastic kibana
Vendors & Products Elastic
Elastic kibana
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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.
Title Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Weaknesses CWE-770
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:32:27.546Z

Reserved: 2026-08-10T11:17:49.704Z

Link: CVE-2026-72674

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:32:23.947Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-08-13T20:17:28.013

Modified: 2026-08-28T15:32:26.217

Link: CVE-2026-72674

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T21:15:03Z

Weaknesses
  • CWE-770

    Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling