CVE-2026-72658 PUBLISHED

Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

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

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVSS Score: 7.3

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	Required	Availability Impact	None

CVSS 3.1

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.)

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-99/389529

Problem Types

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery CWE

Impacts

CAPEC-62 Cross Site Request Forgery