What is GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94?

GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94 cover?

GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-72682. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94?

GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94MediumCVSS 6.5

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

September 1, 2026

Last Modified

September 1, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-72682 →

📋 Description

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user holding only low, read-level Agent Builder privileges could submit a specially crafted request that causes Kibana to consume an unbounded amount of memory, terminating the process and denying service to all users of the instance.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72682
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-6-security-update-esa-2026-84/390054
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5cjp-wfqj-4x94