๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-72673

MEDIUM 5.4

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Synthetics Private Locations

CVSS Score
5.4
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized deletion of Synthetics private locations via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). Synthetics private locations can be shared with more than one space, and deleting one removes it from every space it is shared with. The safeguard that prevented the deletion of a private location still in use evaluated only the monitors visible in the requesting user's own space, so monitors that depend on the private location in other spaces were not taken into account. As a result, an authenticated Kibana user holding the Synthetics write privilege in a single space could delete a private location that other spaces still depend on, even where the user has no access to those spaces. Deleting the private location removes the shared configuration and stops the monitors in the other spaces from running, which suppresses the availability monitoring those spaces rely on.

CWE CWE-863
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:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

Affected Versions

Elastic / Kibana
8.0.0 โ‰ค 8.19.19 9.0.0 โ‰ค 9.4.3

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
discuss.elastic.co: https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-90/389518