CVE-2026-72669 PUBLISHED

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Cross-User Information Disclosure and Data Tampering

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

The state that Kibana stores for an Observability Onboarding flow is not bound to the user who created the flow, and the routes that read and update that state do not verify ownership. An authenticated user who holds only generic read access to the space can therefore discover the onboarding flows of other users, read their onboarding state, and write arbitrary progress data into them. A tampered flow can also cause the owner's onboarding view to fail with a server error.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CVSS Score: 7.6

Product Status

Vendor Elastic
Product Kibana
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 8.9.0 to 8.19.18 (incl.)
  • affected from 9.0.0 to 9.4.4 (incl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862 Missing Authorization CWE