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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-08-19 08:45

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data

Details

The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the account of the requesting user. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, and the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges are not. An authenticated user who holds Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to the Elastic Defend event indices can therefore retrieve field values from that data, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, connection strings, and other sensitive operational detail from protected hosts.

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  "id": "BIT-kibana-2026-72672",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2026-08-19T08:45:16.377Z",
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    }
  ],
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}

CVE-2026-72672 (GCVE-0-2026-72672)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 19:11 – Updated: 2026-08-13 20:32

Title

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data

Summary

Severity

7.7 (High)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-13 20:25 UTC

CWE

CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization

Assigner

elastic mitre root

References

1 reference

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

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Kibana	Affected: 9.1.0 , ≤ 9.4.4 (semver)

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