CVE-2026-78608CWE-862broken-access-control

CVE-2026-78608

Medium · published September 2, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
31.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An authorization control was not applied to an internal Kibana APM integration function, allowing any authenticated Kibana user to read APM server credentials that should be restricted to users holding APM or Fleet administrative privileges.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00382 · 31.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-09-02T00:17Z
Affected products (4)
ProductVersionsFixed in
elastic/kibana≥ 7.14.0, ≤ 7.17.29—
elastic/kibana≥ 8.0.0, < 8.19.218.19.21
elastic/kibana≥ 9.0.0, < 9.4.69.4.6
elastic/kibana≥ 9.5.0, < 9.5.29.5.2
References (1)
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-2-security-update-esa-2026-144/390064 · [email protected]
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 03 SEP 03:32Z
    EPSS moved — → 0%
    epss
  • 01 SEP 19:20Z
    Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure
    cvelistv5