CVE-2026-72672CWE-863broken-access-control

CVE-2026-72672

High · published August 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
7.7
EPSS
0%
Percentile
30.3
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the account of the requesting user. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, and the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges are not. An authenticated user who holds Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to the Elastic Defend event indices can therefore retrieve field values from that data, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, connection strings, and other sensitive operational detail from protected hosts.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.7 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00375 · 30.3th percentile
Weakness
CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2026-08-14T00:17Z
Affected products (1)
ProductVersionsFixed in
elastic/kibana≥ 9.1.0, < 9.4.59.4.5
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 AUG 19:11Z
    Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data
    cvelistv5