CVE-2026-72662

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Disclosure, Modification, and Deletion of Data

State
Published
Severity
6.3 Medium
Published
Sep 26, 2026
Updated
Sep 26, 2026
Reserved
Aug 10, 2026

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Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized disclosure, modification, and deletion of data via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user granted the Timeline feature privilege in a Kibana space could enumerate, read, modify, and delete draft Timeline objects belonging to other users in the same space. Read access is sufficient for enumeration and disclosure; the Timeline write privilege is required for modification and deletion.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.3 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:Lelastic

Weaknesses

  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

Affected Products

ProductVersions
KibanaElastic
  • 8.0.0 through 8.19.21Affected
  • 9.4.0 through 9.4.5Affected

References

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