7.3highHigh
CVE-2026-72658
Elastic Kibana
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.
Exploitation status
- A vendor advisory or patch reference has been published.
What the metrics mean
- It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
- For an attacker who can reach it, no special conditions are needed to exploit it.
- To exploit it, an ordinary user account is needed.
- Beyond that, someone has to be persuaded to take an action first.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 7.3 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-352
- Assigned by
- security@elastic.co
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-09-02
- Sources
- NVD
Affected products
- Elastic Kibana8.0.0 - 8.19.20, 9.0.0 - 9.4.5
As listed in the NVD configuration data. Not a statement about your estate.