CVE-2026-72658

Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

State: Published
Severity: 7.3 High
Published: Aug 13, 2026
Updated: Aug 14, 2026
Reserved: Aug 10, 2026

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.3 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KibanaElastic	8.19.0 through 8.19.19Affected 9.0.0 through 9.4.4Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-99/389529

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