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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.3 Medium

CVE-2026-78596

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Cross-Space Write Operations

Description

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Data / Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An authenticated user holding Security read-level access in a single Kibana space could trigger Entity Analytics migration operations that perform privileged writes across all Kibana spaces, regardless of that user's actual access scope.

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

  • 8.18.3 to ≤ 8.19.20affected
  • 9.0.3 to ≤ 9.4.5affected
  • 9.5.0 to ≤ 9.5.2affected

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