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ElasticCVE-2026-72630

Elastic Kibana: improper authorization

High7.1CVE-2026-72630 · Published Aug 13, 2026 · updated Sep 2, 2026

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). Fleet restricts some callers to managing integration policies for one specific integration. When an existing integration policy was updated, that restriction was evaluated against the integration recorded on the stored policy rather than against the replacement integration supplied with the update. An authenticated user holding only the Elastic Defend endpoint policy management privilege was therefore able to convert an endpoint policy they administer into a policy for a different integration, and to supply that integration's configuration at the same time.

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Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Kibana
Product
>= 8.19.0, <= 8.19.19No fix yet
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.4.4No fix yet
<= 9.5.0No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-863

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