CVE-2026-72661 PUBLISHED

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure

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

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An internal Kibana data retrieval capability used by Elastic Defend endpoint response actions did not enforce the Security Solution and endpoint privileges that its user-facing equivalents require, and it retrieved data with elevated internal permissions rather than the permissions of the requesting user. As a result, an authenticated low-privileged Kibana user with no Security Solution privileges, endpoint privileges and no Elasticsearch privileges on the underlying data, could read endpoint response action records and the corresponding response content returned by managed hosts.

Metrics

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

Product Status

Vendor Elastic
Product Kibana
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8.12.0 to 8.19.18 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.0.0 to 9.3.7 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.4.0 to 9.4.3 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs