CVE-2026-72628 — Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (CWE-409) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding Streams manag…
Published: 2026-09-01 · CVSS: 6.5 · CVSS 3.1
Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (CWE-409) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding Streams management privileges could supply specially crafted content that expands to a far larger volume of data during processing, exhausting the memory available to Kibana. The Kibana process is terminated by the host and remains unavailable to all users until the service is restarted.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7