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ElasticCVE-2026-78593

Elastic Kibana: code injection

Medium4.3CVE-2026-78593 · Published Sep 3, 2026 · updated Sep 8, 2026

An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.

Elastic advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Kibana
Product
>= 8.0.0, <= 8.19.20No fix yet
>= 9.0.0, <= 9.4.5No fix yet
>= 9.5.0, <= 9.5.2No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-94

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