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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.3 Medium

CVE-2026-78591

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Resource Deletion

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
elastic

Description

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22) in the Kibana Fleet feature can lead to the unauthorized deletion of resources via Path Traversal (CAPEC-126). A low-privileged user could cause a subsequent action taken by a higher-privileged user in the Fleet administration interface to act on an unintended target, resulting in the deletion of resources including accounts with elevated privileges.

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

  • 8.0.0 to ≤ 8.19.16affected
  • 9.0.0 to ≤ 9.3.5affected
  • 9.4.0 to ≤ 9.4.2affected

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