CVE-2026-33461 — Incorrect Authorization in Kibana

CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization5 documents5 sources
Severity
7.7HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 82.61%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Elastic Kibana
Timeline
PublishedApr 8
Latest updateApr 11

Description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). A user with limited Fleet privileges can exploit an internal API endpoint to retrieve sensitive configuration data, including private keys and authentication tokens, that should only be accessible to users with higher-level settings privileges. The endpoint composes its response by fetching full configuration objects and returning them directly, bypassing the authorization checks enfor…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 3.1 | Impact: 4.0

Affected Packages1 packages

▶CVEListV5elastic/kibana9.3.0 — 9.3.2+2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
VulDB
Elastic Kibana up to 8.19.13/9.2.7/9.3.2 Internal API Endpoint authorization (Nessus ID 305938)↗2026-04-11
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CVEList
Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Fleet Leading to Information Disclosure↗2026-04-08
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GHSA
GHSA-jf72-2wmj-p2f3: Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122)↗2026-04-08
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
CVE-2026-33461 Impact, Exploitability, and Mitigation Steps | Wiz↗
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CVE-2026-33461 — Incorrect Authorization in Elastic | cvebase