CVE-2026-72631 PUBLISHED

Improper Privilege Management in Kibana Fleet Leading to Over-Scoped Elastic Agent API Keys

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

Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Escalation (CAPEC-233). An integration policy may optionally declare extra data streams that the integration writes to, which Fleet adds to the Elasticsearch API key issued to Elastic Agents enrolled in the corresponding agent policy. The resulting key allows new documents to be inserted and index mappings to be extended for specific indices. The key does not allow reading, updating, or deleting existing documents

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor Elastic
Product Kibana
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9.1.0 to 9.4.4 (incl.)
  • Version 9.5.0 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation