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CVE-2026-78599: Stored Path Traversal in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Internal Resources
- 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: 2026-09-02 · updated 2026-09-03
- Weakness: CWE-22
Description
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22) in the Kibana Fleet feature can lead to the unauthorized deletion of internal resources via Path Traversal (CAPEC-126). A low-privileged user holding Fleet write access could cause a subsequent administrative delete action to act on unintended internal resources. Exploitation requires an administrator to interact with the affected Fleet interface.
Affected products
- Kibana: from 8.0.0 before 8.19.18; from 9.0.0 before 9.4.3 — fixed in 8.19.18, 9.4.3
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 8.19.18, 9.4.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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