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CVE-2026-49087 (GCVE-0-2026-49087)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-01 16:35 – Updated: 2026-07-01 17:25
VLAI
Title
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Summary
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 can submit a specially crafted bulk deletion request that causes excessive resource consumption, which may render Kibana unavailable.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-07-01 17:19 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Elastic Kibana Affected: 9.0.0 , ≤ 9.3.3 (semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , ≤ 8.19.14 (semver)
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