CVE-2026-72658Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation
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Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.
- CVSS
- 7.3 HIGH (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-352
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- elastic
- NVD analysis
- Analyzed
- Record last updated
- Aug 14, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Elastic Kibana elastic:kibana (from the name) | from 8.19.0 through 8.19.19; from 9.0.0 through 9.4.4 | CNA record |
elastic kibana elastic:kibana | from 8.0.0 before 8.19.20; from 9.0.0 before 9.4.5 | NVD |
References
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-99/389529vendor-advisory, mitigation
The CVE record on cve.org NVD's entry
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