Kibana Uncontrolled Resource Consumption via Oversized Payload (CVE-2026-33464)
CVE-2026-33464 Published on May 28, 2026
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding a low-privileged role can submit a specially crafted, oversized payload to an internal Kibana API, causing the Kibana process to exhaust available resources and become unresponsive to all users until the service recovers or is restarted.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-33464 is exploitable 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
What is a Resource Exhaustion Vulnerability?
The software does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources.
CVE-2026-33464 has been classified to as a Resource Exhaustion vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-33464
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 9.4.0, <= 9.4.0 is affected.
- Version 9.0.0, <= 9.3.4 is affected.
- Version 8.0.0, <= 8.19.15 is affected.