6.5Medium
Elastic Kibana
CVE-2026-33465
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 with low-level permissions could submit a specially crafted request that causes excessive resource consumption, which may render Kibana unavailable.
What this means for your business
- It affects Elastic Kibana. It matters if your company, or a supplier that handles your data, runs it.
- An attacker can use it remotely, over a network, with an ordinary user login, and without anyone at your company clicking anything.
- FIRST's prediction model gives it a 0.3% chance of attack attempts being seen in the next 30 days, ranking above 22% of all known flaws.
What to do
- 1Check whether your company or your suppliers run Elastic Kibana, and which version. The affected versions are listed further down this page.
- 2If you do, apply the vendor's fix. A patch or vendor advisory has been published.
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Scoring
- CVSS
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Assigned by
- security@elastic.co
Dates
- Published
- 2026-09-01
- Last modified
- 2026-09-02
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Elastic Kibana8.0.0 - 8.19.17, 9.0.0 - 9.3.0
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.