Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Data (Elastic Kibana)

CVE-2026-72641
MEDIUM 5.4

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.31 % · percentile 24 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
elastic
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user holding only Security Solution read access in a Kibana space could enumerate and change the state of Entity Store maintainer tasks, silently disabling Entity Analytics maintenance for that space.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Lelastic
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 5.4CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:LNVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Elastic · Kibanaaffected 9.4.0 ≤ 9.4.5 ; affected 9.5.0

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