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CVE-2026-42400

6.5 medium SSVC exploitation: none Analyzed

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.

Fix

Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 6.5 · elasticNVD modified 2026-10-14 20:10

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 1