CVE-2026-72672

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data

State
Published
Severity
7.7 High
Published
Aug 13, 2026
Updated
Aug 13, 2026
Reserved
Aug 10, 2026

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Description

The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the account of the requesting user. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, and the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges are not. An authenticated user who holds Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to the Elastic Defend event indices can therefore retrieve field values from that data, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, connection strings, and other sensitive operational detail from protected hosts.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
KibanaElastic
  • 9.1.0 through 9.4.4Affected

References

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