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FKIE_CVE-2026-78606

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-09-01 20:17 - Updated: 2026-09-02 14:52
Severity
4.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized disclosure, modification, and deletion of data via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). Where two authenticated principals originating from different authentication realms share the same username value, one could read, modify, and delete the other's private Elastic AI Assistant Knowledge Base entries.
References
security@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-2-security-update-esa-2026-142/390093Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elastic kibana *
elastic kibana *
elastic kibana *
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