Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Cross-Space Write Operations (Elastic Kibana)

CVE-2026-78596
MEDIUM 4.3

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.27 % · percentile 19 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
elastic
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Description

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Data / Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An authenticated user holding Security read-level access in a single Kibana space could trigger Entity Analytics migration operations that perform privileged writes across all Kibana spaces, regardless of that user's actual access scope.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-862 — Missing Authorization

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nelastic
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NNVD · security@elastic.co (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
Elastic · Kibanaaffected 8.18.3 ≤ 8.19.20 ; affected 9.0.3 ≤ 9.4.5 ; affected 9.5.0 ≤ 9.5.2

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