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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-09-09 08:41

Modified

2026-09-09 09:13

Summary

Improper Control of Generation of Code in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

Details

An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.

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CVE-2026-78593 (GCVE-0-2026-78593)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-03 18:35 – Updated: 2026-09-03 18:49

Title

Improper Control of Generation of Code in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

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 2026-09-03 18:49 UTC

CWE

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Assigner

elastic mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-21-9-4-6…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Kibana	Affected: 8.0.0 , ≤ 8.19.20 (semver) Affected: 9.0.0 , ≤ 9.4.5 (semver) Affected: 9.5.0 , ≤ 9.5.2 (semver)

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2026-78593 (GCVE-0-2026-78593)

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