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CVE-2026-72654: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure
- 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: 2026-09-01 · updated 2026-09-02
- Weakness: CWE-250
Description
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) in the Kibana machine learning feature can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An operation available to users holding only read access to the machine learning feature was performed with an internal service identity rather than the identity of the requesting user. Such a user could therefore receive data from Elasticsearch indices they are not authorized to read. No Elasticsearch cluster or index privileges are required.
Affected products
- Kibana: from 8.0.0 before 8.19.21; from 9.0.0 before 9.4.6; from 9.5.0 before 9.5.2 — fixed in 8.19.21, 9.4.6, 9.5.2
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 8.19.21, 9.4.6, 9.5.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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