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GHSA-HM4V-VWXQ-29J4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-13 21:36 – Updated: 2026-08-13 21:36

Details

Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203) in Kibana Fleet can lead to information disclosure via Excavation (CAPEC-116). Fleet removes the Elasticsearch API key value of an enrolled Elastic Agent from the responses of its agent listing capability, but that capability accepted caller-supplied filter expressions over the stored field that holds the value, and evaluated them with Kibana's own internal Elasticsearch privileges rather than the caller's. Because the number of matching agents is reported back to the caller, the difference between a matching and a non-matching filter formed a side channel from which the full API key value could be reconstructed one character at a time with a short sequence of requests.

Severity

7.1 (High)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

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CVE-2026-72632 (GCVE-0-2026-72632)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 19:14 – Updated: 2026-08-13 20:27

Title

Observable Discrepancy in Kibana Fleet Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Agent Elasticsearch API Keys

Summary

Severity

7.1 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-13 19:29 UTC

CWE

CWE-203 - Observable Discrepancy

Assigner

elastic mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Elastic	Kibana	Affected: 8.19.0 , ≤ 8.19.19 (semver) Affected: 9.0.0 , ≤ 9.4.4 (semver) Affected: 9.5.0 (semver)

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