Resource Allocation Vulnerability in Kibana from Elastic
CVE-2025-68389

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Elastic

Status
Vendor
CVE Published:
18 December 2025

What is CVE-2025-68389?

A vulnerability in Kibana allows low-privileged authenticated users to exploit resource allocation without limits. By crafting specific HTTP requests, these users can trigger excessive resource allocation, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) that disrupts the Kibana process. This issue underscores the importance of implementing limits on resource usage to safeguard systems against potential attacks and ensure ongoing service availability.

Affected Version(s)

Kibana 7.0.0 <= 7.17.29

Kibana 8.0.0 <= 8.19.8

Kibana 9.0.0 <= 9.1.8

References

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2025-68389 : Resource Allocation Vulnerability in Kibana from Elastic