CVE-2026-78608

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Sep 1, 2026
Updated: Sep 1, 2026
Reserved: Aug 24, 2026

Description

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An authorization control was not applied to an internal Kibana APM integration function, allowing any authenticated Kibana user to read APM server credentials that should be restricted to users holding APM or Fleet administrative privileges.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	elastic

Weaknesses

CWE-862 Missing Authorization

Affected Products

Product	Versions
KibanaElastic	7.14.0 through 7.17.29Affected 8.0.0 through 8.19.20Affected 9.0.0 through 9.4.5Affected 9.5.0 through 9.5.1Affected

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-2-security-update-esa-2026-144/390064

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