Vulnerability · Published Dec 18, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

CVE-2025-68389Kibana Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity resource allocation without limits in Kibana from Elastic. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 75.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Elastic Kibana 7.0.0 – through 7.17.298.0.0 – through 8.19.89.0.0 – through 9.1.89.2.0 – through 9.2.2

Weakness: CWE-770 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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