CVE-2026-72681Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation and Information Disclosure
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Kibana Agent Builder does not correctly verify that the requesting user holds the privileges required by a separate Kibana feature before it creates and runs a tool that invokes that feature's functionality. This allows privilege escalation and could lead to disclosure of sensitive information that the user is not authorized to read.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-862
- 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 9.4.0 through 9.4.3 | CNA record |
elastic kibana elastic:kibana | from 9.4.0 before 9.4.4 | NVD |
References
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-83/389534vendor-advisory
The CVE record on cve.org NVD's entry
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