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CVE-2025-68389 (GCVE-0-2025-68389)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-18 22:14 – Updated: 2025-12-19 15:34
VLAI
Title
Kibana Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
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.
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-12-19 15:34 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Elastic Kibana Affected: 7.0.0 , ≤ 7.17.29 (semver)
Affected: 8.0.0 , ≤ 8.19.8 (semver)
Affected: 9.0.0 , ≤ 9.1.8 (semver)
Affected: 9.2.0 , ≤ 9.2.2 (semver)
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