Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting kibana package, versions >=9.3.0 <9.3.8>=9.4.0 <9.4.4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.29% (21st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-KIBANA-19006120
  • published20 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-72674  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kibana to version 9.3.8, 9.4.4 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 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the Kibana Playground for RAG. An attacker can exhaust system resources and cause service disruption by submitting a specially crafted request containing an excessively large or non-deduplicated list of document fields.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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