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CVE-2026-72641: Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Data
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.4 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-01 · updated 2026-09-02
- Weakness: CWE-863
Description
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user holding only Security Solution read access in a Kibana space could enumerate and change the state of Entity Store maintainer tasks, silently disabling Entity Analytics maintenance for that space.
Affected products
- Kibana: from 9.4.0 before 9.4.6; 9.5.0 — fixed in 9.4.6
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 9.4.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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