CVE-2026-72666

published 2026-08-13

CVE-2026-72666: Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized query execution against Elastic Agents that are assigned to a…

Priority P3 42 medium 6.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC H PR L UI N S U C H I H A N

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized query execution against Elastic Agents that are assigned to a Kibana space the requesting user has no access to, via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). A user who is authorized to run Osquery live queries in one space can have a query carried out on hosts belonging to another space, resulting in disclosure of information from those hosts to the Osquery results data stream.

Affected

2 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
elastic	kibana	>= 9.1.0 < 9.4.5	9.4.5
elastic	kibana	9.1.0 – 9.4.4	—

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CWE-639