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CVE-2026-72658

High

Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.

SeverityHigh
CVSS7.3
Exploit probability—
ProductElastic Kibana
PublishedAug 13, 2026
First seenAug 13, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-352Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)

How to fix

Update
  • elastic kibana8.19.20, 9.4.5 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
elastic kibana8.0.0 ≤ v < 8.19.20, 9.0.0 ≤ v < 9.4.58.19.20, 9.4.5

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