Resource exhaustion in Kibana - CVE-2025-68389
Published: December 19, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU120214
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-68389
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources. A remote user can send a specially crafted HTTP requesy, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Affected software
Kibana
How to mitigate CVE-2025-68389
Install updates from vendor's website.
Kibana - addressed in versions 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3