CVE-2025-68386

Kibana Improper Authorization

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Dec 18, 2025
Updated: Dec 19, 2025
Reserved: Dec 16, 2025

Description

Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to change a document's sharing type to "global," even though they do not have permission to do so, making it visible to everyone in the space via a crafted a HTTP request.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KibanaElastic	7.0.0 through 7.17.29Affected 8.0.0 through 8.19.7Affected 9.0.0 through 9.1.7Affected 9.2.0 through 9.2.1Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-38/384186

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