Authenticated process crash
Published Dec 18, 2025 · Updated Dec 18, 2025
Resource exhaustion in affected Elastic Kibana releases allows remote authenticated users to crash the Kibana process via a crafted HTTP request. Elastic has not disclosed the request endpoint, parser, or allocation operation that consumes attacker-controlled input without limits. Low-privileged Kibana access is required; successful exploitation exhausts compute resources and stops the affected process, with no reported data disclosure or modification.
Summary
What happened
Resource exhaustion in affected Elastic Kibana releases allows remote authenticated users to crash the Kibana process via a crafted HTTP request. Elastic has not disclosed the request endpoint, parser, or allocation operation that consumes attacker-controlled input without limits. Low-privileged Kibana access is required; successful exploitation exhausts compute resources and stops the affected process, with no reported data disclosure or modification.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-68389
- Published
- Dec 18, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 18, 2025
- Vendor
- Elastic
- Product
- Kibana
- Classifications
- CWE-770, CAPEC-130, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Dec 18, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 18, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=7.0.0 <=7.17.29
- Affected versionversion=8.0.0 <=8.19.8
- Affected versionversion=9.0.0 <=9.1.8
- Affected versionversion=9.2.0 <=9.2.2
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