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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD4.2 Medium

CVE-2026-78606

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Disclosure, Modification, and Deletion of Data

Description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized disclosure, modification, and deletion of data via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). Where two authenticated principals originating from different authentication realms share the same username value, one could read, modify, and delete the other's private Elastic AI Assistant Knowledge Base entries.

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

  • 8.19.11 to ≤ 8.19.20affected
  • 9.3.0 to ≤ 9.4.5affected
  • 9.5.0 to ≤ 9.5.1affected

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