Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Requires authenticated session (PR:L); impact is resource exhaustion on the cluster only (A:L), with no confidentiality or integrity consequence.
Primary rating from Vendor (elastic).
CVSS VectorVendor: elastic
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionCVE.org
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in the Kibana machine learning feature can lead to unauthorized resource consumption via Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels (CAPEC-180). An authenticated user could invoke machine learning functionality beyond their authorization scope, consuming cluster resources they should not be able to reach.
AnalysisAI
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana's machine learning feature allows authenticated users to invoke ML functionality beyond their assigned authorization scope, consuming Elasticsearch cluster resources they are not permitted to access. Affected across all Kibana versions prior to the 8.19.21, 9.4.6, and 9.5.2 releases patched under Elastic advisory ESA-2026-169. …
Unlock full vulnerability intelligence
- Risk assessment & exploitation conditions
- Attack chain visualization
- Remediation with exact patch versions
- Threat intelligence from 22 sources
- Personal watchlist & email alerts
Free forever · No credit card required
Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata
Vulnerability AssessmentAI
| Exploitation | Requires a valid authenticated Kibana session (PR:L) - unauthenticated attackers cannot exploit this. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The CVSS 4.3 Medium rating is consistent with real-world risk here. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | Full exploit scenario with step-by-step reproduction available after sign-in. |
| Remediation | Upgrade Kibana to version 8.19.21, 9.4.6, or 9.5.2 as directed by Elastic advisory ESA-2026-169 (https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-2-security-update-esa-2026-169/390119). … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
Threat intelligence, references, and detailed analysis are available after sign-in.
Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. Rated criti
Kibana versions 6.7.0 to 6.8.8 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.2 contain a prototype pollution flaw in the Upgrade Assistant. Rated hig
Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. Rated critical s
Prototype pollution in Kibana leads to arbitrary code execution via a crafted file upload and specifically crafted HTTP
Kibana versions 4.0 to 4.6, 5.0 to 5.6.12, and 6.0 to 6.4.2 contain an error in the way authorization credentials are us
A Prototype pollution vulnerability in Kibana leads to arbitrary code execution via crafted HTTP requests to machine lea
Kibana versions before 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the security audit logger. Rated critical sever
Prototype Pollution in Kibana can lead to code injection via unrestricted file upload combined with path traversal. Rate
Privilege escalation in Elastic Kibana's Agent Builder component (versions 9.4.0-9.4.3) allows authenticated low-privile
A deserialization issue in Kibana can lead to arbitrary code execution when Kibana attempts to parse a YAML document con
Kibana version 8.7.0 contains an arbitrary code execution flaw. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulnerability is re
Kibana versions 8.0.0 through 8.7.0 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw. Rated high severity (CVSS 8.8), this vulne
Same weakness CWE-863 – Incorrect Authorization
View allShare
External POC / Exploit Code
Leaving vuln.today
EUVD-2026-70067
GHSA-5hpp-wj8x-q98g