CVE-2026-72673CWE-863broken-access-control

CVE-2026-72673

Medium · published August 14, 2026

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
0%
Percentile
22.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized deletion of Synthetics private locations via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). Synthetics private locations can be shared with more than one space, and deleting one removes it from every space it is shared with. The safeguard that prevented the deletion of a private location still in use evaluated only the monitors visible in the requesting user's own space, so monitors that depend on the private location in other spaces were not taken into account. As a result, an authenticated Kibana user holding the Synthetics write privilege in a single space could delete a private location that other spaces still depend on, even where the user has no access to those spaces. Deleting the private location removes the shared configuration and stops the monitors in the other spaces from running, which suppresses the availability monitoring those spaces rely on.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00309 · 22.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-863 · Incorrect Authorization
Published
2026-08-14T00:17Z
Affected products (2)
ProductVersionsFixed in
elastic/kibana≥ 8.0.0, < 8.19.208.19.20
elastic/kibana≥ 9.0.0, < 9.4.49.4.4
References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 13 AUG 19:11Z
    Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Synthetics Private Locations
    cvelistv5