CVE-2026-72661

Medium

Description

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An internal Kibana data retrieval capability used by Elastic Defend endpoint response actions did not enforce the Security Solution and endpoint privileges that its user-facing equivalents require, and it retrieved data with elevated internal permissions rather than the permissions of the requesting user. As a result, an authenticated low-privileged Kibana user with no Security Solution privileges, endpoint privileges and no Elasticsearch privileges on the underlying data, could read endpoint response action records and the corresponding response content returned by managed hosts.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductElastic Kibana
PublishedAug 13, 2026
First seenAug 13, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • elastic kibana8.19.19, 9.3.8, 9.4.4 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
elastic kibana8.12.0 ≤ v < 8.19.19, 9.0.0 ≤ v < 9.3.8, 9.4.0 ≤ v < 9.4.48.19.19, 9.3.8, 9.4.4

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