Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value Affecting kibana package, versions >=8.11.0 <8.18.0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (22nd percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-KIBANA-18857027
  • published16 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-72656  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kibana to version 8.18.0 or higher.

Overview

kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value via the ES|QL query processing. An attacker can exhaust available heap memory and cause the node to become unavailable by submitting specially crafted queries that trigger excessive memory allocation.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1