CVE-2026-33462 PUBLISHED

Path Traversal in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of User Accounts

Assigner: elastic
Reserved: 20.03.2026 Published: 28.05.2026 Updated: 28.05.2026

A path traversal vulnerability was identified in Kibana's dashboard management functionality. An authenticated user with limited permissions could create a dashboard with a specially crafted identifier. When an administrator subsequently attempts to delete this dashboard through the Kibana interface, the deletion request is redirected to an unintended internal endpoint, potentially resulting in the unauthorized deletion of user accounts or other resources. Exploitation requires an administrator to perform a delete action on the maliciously crafted dashboard object.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 4.6

Product Status

Vendor Elastic
Product Kibana
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9.0.0 to 9.3.4 (incl.)
  • affected from 8.0.0 to 8.19.15 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs