CVE-2025-68422 — Incorrect Authorization in Kibana

CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization5 documents5 sources
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.0%
top 90.03%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Elastic Kibana
Timeline
PublishedDec 18
Latest updateDec 19

Description

Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to bypass intended permission restrictions via a crafted HTTP request. This allows an attacker who lacks the live queries - read permission to successfully retrieve the list of live queries.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 1.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶CVEListV5elastic/kibana9.2.0 — 9.2.0+3
▶NVDelastic/kibana8.0.0 — 8.19.7+3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-v7q8-5286-xfvf: Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to bypass intended permissio↗2025-12-19
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CVEList
Kibana Improper Authorization↗2025-12-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
Kibana: Kibana: Privilege escalation and information disclosure via improper authorization↗2025-12-18
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2025-68422 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz↗
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CVE-2025-68422 — Incorrect Authorization in Elastic | cvebase