CVE-2026-72641

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Data

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Sep 1, 2026
Updated: Sep 1, 2026
Reserved: Aug 10, 2026

Description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user holding only Security Solution read access in a Kibana space could enumerate and change the state of Entity Store maintainer tasks, silently disabling Entity Analytics maintenance for that space.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KibanaElastic	9.4.0 through 9.4.5Affected 9.5.0Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-6-9-5-1-security-update-esa-2026-122/390089

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