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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-09-07 05:40

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Disabling of Privilege Monitoring

Details

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana Entity Analytics can lead to a loss of security monitoring via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user holding only read-level Security feature access, and no Elasticsearch privileges, could stop the recurring Privilege Monitoring engine task for a Kibana space. Privileged user monitoring then stops producing data for that space while the engine continues to report a healthy state to operators.

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  "id": "BIT-elk-2026-72633",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2026-09-07T05:40:42.320Z",
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}

CVE-2026-72633 (GCVE-0-2026-72633)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-01 19:20 – Updated: 2026-09-01 19:42

Title

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Disabling of Privilege Monitoring

Summary

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-09-01 19:42 UTC

CWE

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

elastic mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-6-9-5-2-s…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Kibana	Affected: 9.1.0 , ≤ 9.4.5 (semver) Affected: 9.5.0 , ≤ 9.5.1 (semver)

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