CVE-2026-78597

Missing Authorization in Kibana Entity Store Leading to Unauthorized API Key Creation

State
Published
Severity
4.3 Medium
Published
Sep 1, 2026
Updated
Sep 1, 2026
Reserved
Aug 24, 2026

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Description

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in the Kibana Entity Store feature can lead to unauthorized credential creation via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user holding only low-privilege Security feature access could invoke an administrative operation that creates and persists Elasticsearch API keys under the caller's identity, bypassing the elevated cluster and Kibana privileges that the documented Entity Store setup flow requires.

Scores

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

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
KibanaElastic
  • 8.0.0 through 8.19.20Affected
  • 9.0.3 through 9.4.5Affected

References

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