Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Query Execution on Managed Hosts (Elastic Kibana)

CVE-2026-72666
MEDIUM 6.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.37 % · percentile 31 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
elastic
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized query execution against Elastic Agents that are assigned to a Kibana space the requesting user has no access to, via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). A user who is authorized to run Osquery live queries in one space can have a query carried out on hosts belonging to another space, resulting in disclosure of information from those hosts to the Osquery results data stream.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-639 — Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nelastic
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NNVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Elastic · Kibanaaffected 9.1.0 ≤ 9.4.4

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