CVE-2026-72668

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

State
Published
Severity
7.3 High
Published
Sep 26, 2026
Updated
Sep 29, 2026
Reserved
Aug 10, 2026

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Description

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') (CWE-441) in Kibana Agent Builder can lead to privilege escalation. A non-administrative user able to edit a shared agent could cause privileged operations to be carried out under the identity of a higher-privileged user who subsequently interacts with that agent. Where the same user can also author workflows, this can extend to full administrative control of Kibana and of the Elasticsearch cluster.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.3 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nelastic

Weaknesses

  • CWE-441 Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
KibanaElastic
  • 9.4.0 through 9.4.6Affected

References

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