Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Privileged Resources (Elastic Kibana)

CVE-2026-78592
HIGH 7.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.40 % · percentile 35 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
elastic
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22) in Kibana can lead to the unauthorized deletion of privileged resources via Path Traversal (CAPEC-126). A low-privileged user holding tag creation privileges could cause a subsequent administrative action in the tag management interface to act on an unintended target, resulting in the deletion of privileged resources including administrative accounts and other organizational assets. Exploitation requires an administrator to interact with the affected interface.

Weaknesses (CWE)

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

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Helastic
CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:HNVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
Elastic · Kibanaaffected 7.11.0 ≤ 7.17.29 ; affected 8.0.0 ≤ 8.19.15 ; affected 9.0.0 ≤ 9.3.4 ; affected 9.4.0 ≤ 9.4.1

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