Kibana Resource Leak: Authenticated DoS via Crafted HTTP (CVE-2025-68389)
CVE-2025-68389 Published on December 18, 2025
Kibana Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of computing resources and a denial of service (DoS) of the Kibana process via a crafted HTTP request.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-68389 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a high impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-68389
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 7.0.0, <= 7.17.29 is affected.
- Version 8.0.0, <= 8.19.8 is affected.
- Version 9.0.0, <= 9.1.8 is affected.
- Version 9.2.0, <= 9.2.2 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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