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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.3 High

CVE-2026-72668

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

Description

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') (CWE-441) in Kibana Agent Builder can lead to privilege escalation. A non-administrative user able to edit a shared agent could cause privileged operations to be carried out under the identity of a higher-privileged user who subsequently interacts with that agent. Where the same user can also author workflows, this can extend to full administrative control of Kibana and of the Elasticsearch cluster.

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

  • 9.4.0 to ≤ 9.4.6affected

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