Elastic Kibana up to 9.4.4/9.5.0 Observability AI Assistant uncaught exception
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Summary
A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Elastic Kibana up to 9.4.4/9.5.0. Impacted is an unknown function of the component Observability AI Assistant. Such manipulation leads to uncaught exception. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-72644. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. No exploit is available.
Details
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Elastic Kibana up to 9.4.4/9.5.0. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Observability AI Assistant. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a uncaught exception vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-248. An exception is thrown from a function, but it is not caught. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:
Uncaught Exception (CWE-248) in Kibana can lead to a denial of service via Input Data Manipulation (CAPEC-153). An authenticated user holding only the low-privileged feature access required to use the Observability AI Assistant can submit a specially crafted request that produces an unhandled error condition, terminating the Kibana process and denying service to all users and spaces on that instance until it is restarted.
The advisory is shared for download at discuss.elastic.co. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-72644 since 08/10/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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Product
Vendor
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CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.4VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.4
VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.3
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CNA Base Score: 6.5
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Exploiting
Class: Uncaught exceptionCWE: CWE-248
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes
Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
08/10/2026 CVE reserved09/01/2026 Advisory disclosed
09/01/2026 VulDB entry created
09/01/2026 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Advisory: discuss.elastic.coStatus: Confirmed
CVE: CVE-2026-72644 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-72644
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-397820
Entry
Created: 09/01/2026 21:47Changes: 09/01/2026 21:47 (61)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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