CVE-2026-72630 PUBLISHED

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Fleet Leading to Privilege Escalation

Assigner: elastic
Reserved: 10.08.2026 Published: 13.08.2026 Updated: 14.08.2026

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). Fleet restricts some callers to managing integration policies for one specific integration. When an existing integration policy was updated, that restriction was evaluated against the integration recorded on the stored policy rather than against the replacement integration supplied with the update. An authenticated user holding only the Elastic Defend endpoint policy management privilege was therefore able to convert an endpoint policy they administer into a policy for a different integration, and to supply that integration's configuration at the same time.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.1

Product Status

Vendor Elastic
Product Kibana
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8.19.0 to 8.19.19 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.0.0 to 9.4.4 (incl.)
  • Version 9.5.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-122 Privilege Abuse