6.5
MEDIUM CVSS 3.1
CVE-2026-49094
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service
Description

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user with viewer-level access can submit a request containing an oversized input value to an analytics collections management endpoint. Kibana will consume excessive CPU and memory resources while processing the request. This results in Kibana becoming unavailable to all users until the service is manually recovered.

INFO

Published Date :

May 28, 2026, 9:16 p.m.

Last Modified :

May 29, 2026, 2:46 p.m.

Remotely Exploit :

Yes !
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-49094 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Elastic kibana
CVSS Scores
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Score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Score Impact Score Source
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM 271b6943-45a9-4f3a-ab4e-976f3fa05b5a
CVSS 3.1 MEDIUM [email protected]
Solution
Limit request sizes and update Kibana to prevent excessive resource consumption and denial of service.
  • Apply input validation to limit request sizes.
  • Update Kibana to the latest version.
  • Monitor system resource usage.
  • Restart Kibana if it becomes unresponsive.
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2026-49094.

URL Resource
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-16-security-update-esa-2026-39/386561/1
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-49094 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2026-49094 weaknesses.

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2026-49094 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • New CVE Received by [email protected]

    May. 28, 2026

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Description Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400) in Kibana can lead to denial of service via Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130). An authenticated user with viewer-level access can submit a request containing an oversized input value to an analytics collections management endpoint. Kibana will consume excessive CPU and memory resources while processing the request. This results in Kibana becoming unavailable to all users until the service is manually recovered.
    Added CVSS V3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
    Added CWE CWE-400
    Added Reference https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-16-security-update-esa-2026-39/386561/1
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.