An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/metrics/snapshot. This can be carried out by users with read access to the Observability Metrics or Logs features in Kibana.
{
"cpes": [
"cpe:2.3:a:elasticsearch:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*"
],
"severity": "Medium"
}