CVE-2024-23446: Kibana Broken Access Control issue

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2024-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

An issue was discovered by Elastic, whereby the Detection Engine Search API does not respect Document-level security (DLS) or Field-level security (FLS) when querying the .alerts-security.alerts-{space_id} indices. Users who are authorized to call this API may obtain unauthorized access to documents if their roles are configured with DLS or FLS against the aforementioned index.

Affected products

Kibana: from 8.0.0 before 8.12.1 — fixed in 8.12.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 8.12.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-12-1-security-update-esa-2024-01/352686
https://www.elastic.co/community/security
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-12-1-security-update-esa-2024-01/352686
https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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