Path Traversal in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of User Accounts (Elastic Kibana)

CVE-2026-33462
MEDIUM 4.6

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.24 % · percentile 15 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
elastic
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

A path traversal vulnerability was identified in Kibana's dashboard management functionality. An authenticated user with limited permissions could create a dashboard with a specially crafted identifier. When an administrator subsequently attempts to delete this dashboard through the Kibana interface, the deletion request is redirected to an unintended internal endpoint, potentially resulting in the unauthorized deletion of user accounts or other resources. Exploitation requires an administrator to perform a delete action on the maliciously crafted dashboard object.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Lelastic
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LNVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary)
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Elastic · Kibanaaffected 9.0.0 ≤ 9.3.4 ; affected 8.0.0 ≤ 8.19.15

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD