Elastic Kibana up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2 HTTP Request allocation of resources

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Elastic Kibana up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component HTTP Request Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to allocation of resources. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-68389. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Elastic Kibana up to 7.17.29/8.19.8/9.1.8/9.2.2. This vulnerability affects some unknown functionality of the component HTTP Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-68389 since 12/16/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2899). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

Affected

• Open Source Kibana

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Vendor

• Elastic

Name

• Kibana

Version

• 7.17.0
• 7.17.1
• 7.17.2
• 7.17.3
• 7.17.4
• 7.17.5
• 7.17.6
• 7.17.7
• 7.17.8
• 7.17.9
• 7.17.10
• 7.17.11
• 7.17.12
• 7.17.13
• 7.17.14
• 7.17.15
• 7.17.16
• 7.17.17
• 7.17.18
• 7.17.19
• 7.17.20
• 7.17.21
• 7.17.22
• 7.17.23
• 7.17.24
• 7.17.25
• 7.17.26
• 7.17.27
• 7.17.28
• 7.17.29
• 8.19.0
• 8.19.1
• 8.19.2
• 8.19.3
• 8.19.4
• 8.19.5
• 8.19.6
• 8.19.7
• 8.19.8
• 9.1.0
• 9.1.1
• 9.1.2
• 9.1.3
• 9.1.4
• 9.1.5
• 9.1.6
• 9.1.7
• 9.1.8
• 9.2.0
• 9.2.1
• 9.2.2

License

• open-source

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