CVE-2026-72664 PUBLISHED

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Execution of Endpoint Response Actions

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

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized execution of Elastic Defend response actions on managed hosts via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). A Kibana user who holds only detection rule authoring privileges for the Elastic Security solution can associate automated endpoint response actions with a detection rule, even though the dedicated Endpoint response action privileges that govern those capabilities (host isolation, process operations, and execute operations) have not been granted to that user. When such a rule generates alerts, the associated response actions are carried out against the matching hosts.

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 8.9.0 to 8.19.19 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.0.0 to 9.4.4 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-1 Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs