CVE-2026-72632 PUBLISHED

Observable Discrepancy in Kibana Fleet Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Agent Elasticsearch API Keys

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

Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203) in Kibana Fleet can lead to information disclosure via Excavation (CAPEC-116). Fleet removes the Elasticsearch API key value of an enrolled Elastic Agent from the responses of its agent listing capability, but that capability accepted caller-supplied filter expressions over the stored field that holds the value, and evaluated them with Kibana's own internal Elasticsearch privileges rather than the caller's. Because the number of matching agents is reported back to the caller, the difference between a matching and a non-matching filter formed a side channel from which the full API key value could be reconstructed one character at a time with a short sequence of requests.

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-203 Observable Discrepancy CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-116 Excavation