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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.5 Medium

CVE-2026-72664

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Execution of Endpoint Response Actions

Description

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized execution of Elastic Defend response actions on managed hosts via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). A Kibana user who holds only detection rule authoring privileges for the Elastic Security solution can associate automated endpoint response actions with a detection rule, even though the dedicated Endpoint response action privileges that govern those capabilities (host isolation, process operations, and execute operations) have not been granted to that user. When such a rule generates alerts, the associated response actions are carried out against the matching hosts.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Elastic Kibana

Default version status: unaffected

  • 8.9.0 to ≤ 8.19.19affected
  • 9.0.0 to ≤ 9.4.4affected

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