๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-72658

HIGH 7.3

Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

CVSS Score
7.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.

CWE CWE-352
Vendor elastic
Product kibana
Published Aug 13, 2026
Last Updated Aug 13, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

Affected Versions

Elastic / Kibana
8.19.0 โ‰ค 8.19.19 9.0.0 โ‰ค 9.4.4

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
discuss.elastic.co: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-99/389529