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.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elastic / kibana | - | 7.17.23 |
| elastic / kibana | 8.0.0 | 8.15.0 |