Riskcovery

CVE-2026-78591

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Resource Deletion

State
Published
Severity
6.3 Medium
Published
Sep 2, 2026
Updated
Sep 2, 2026
Reserved
Aug 24, 2026

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Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22) in the Kibana Fleet feature can lead to the unauthorized deletion of resources via Path Traversal (CAPEC-126). A low-privileged user could cause a subsequent action taken by a higher-privileged user in the Fleet administration interface to act on an unintended target, resulting in the deletion of resources including accounts with elevated privileges.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
KibanaElastic
  • 8.0.0 through 8.19.16Affected
  • 9.0.0 through 9.3.5Affected
  • 9.4.0 through 9.4.2Affected

References

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