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ElasticCVE-2026-72658

Elastic Kibana: cross-site request forgery

High7.3CVE-2026-72658 · Published Aug 13, 2026 · updated Sep 2, 2026

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.

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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
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-352

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