CVE-2026-72644

Uncaught Exception in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service

Published Sep 1, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Uncaught Exception (CWE-248) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Input Data Manipulation (CAPEC-153). An authenticated user holding only the low-privileged feature access required to use the Observability AI Assistant can submit a specially crafted request that produces an unhandled error condition, terminating the Kibana process and denying service to all users and spaces on that instance until it is restarted.

Remediation

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History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:9.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Elastic
Elastic kibana
Vendors & Products Elastic
Elastic kibana
Type Values Removed Values Added
Description Uncaught Exception (CWE-248) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Input Data Manipulation (CAPEC-153). An authenticated user holding only the low-privileged feature access required to use the Observability AI Assistant can submit a specially crafted request that produces an unhandled error condition, terminating the Kibana process and denying service to all users and spaces on that instance until it is restarted.
Title Uncaught Exception in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Weaknesses CWE-248
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'}

ssvc

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

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
elastic
Published
Updated
Sep 1, 2026, 7:37 PM
Reserved
Aug 10, 2026, 11:17 AM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Sep 1, 2026, 8:17 PM
Modified
Sep 2, 2026, 2:22 PM