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Medium 6.5Published May 28, 2026

CVE-2026-49095Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) in the Kibana Fleet agent policy management feature can lead to privilege escalation.

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No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) in the Kibana Fleet agent policy management feature can lead to privilege escalation. An authenticated user with Fleet management privileges can manipulate agent policy configuration by injecting values into a configuration override mechanism that is not adequately validated. An attacker can cause Elastic Agents to be issued API keys with elevated Elasticsearch privileges, potentially granting unauthorized read and write access to sensitive Elasticsearch security indices beyond what is intended for the Fleet management role.

CVSS
6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-20
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
Not given
NVD analysis
Analyzed
Record last updated
Jul 21, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 9, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
elastic kibana
elastic:kibana
from 8.0.0 before 8.19.16; from 9.0.0 before 9.3.5; from 9.4.0 before 9.4.2
NVD

References

  • vendor-advisory

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