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ElasticCVE-2026-72665

Elastic Kibana: missing authorization

High8.1CVE-2026-72665 · Published Aug 13, 2026 · updated Sep 2, 2026

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized execution of Osquery and Elastic Defend response actions on managed hosts via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). A Kibana user who is able to author and evaluate Elastic Security detection rules can cause response actions to be carried out against enrolled agents without holding the Osquery live query privileges or the Elastic Defend response action privileges that normally govern those capabilities. Depending on the response action involved, this can result in disclosure of information from the affected hosts or in unauthorized changes to their state.

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Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Kibana
Product
>= 8.5.0, <= 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:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-862

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