Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessObtain low-privilege Kibana credentials
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DeliveryAuthenticate to Kibana Fleet API
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ExploitRequest Fleet proxy configuration endpoint
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ExecutionReceive proxy credentials and private key material
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ImpactAuthenticate to proxy infrastructure or decrypt TLS traffic
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V14 - Data Protection Data exposure prevention
MITRE ATT&CK
2 techniques across 2 tactics: Collection, Discovery The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires a valid, authenticated Kibana user account with at minimum the 'read agent policies' Fleet privilege - a permission commonly granted to analysts and operators who do not hold full Fleet administrative access. The Fleet proxy feature must be actively configured with a proxy server; if no proxy is configured, there is no sensitive credential material to expose, though the authorization bypass itself still exists. Exploitation is strictly limited by the requirement for prior authentication: unauthenticated network access is insufficient to exploit this vulnerability. The CVSS PR:L metric confirms the low-privilege requirement. The S:C scope change in the CVSS vector indicates that impact extends to systems protected by the exposed proxy credentials, beyond the Kibana instance itself. |
| Impact | The CVSS 7.7 score with a Scope Changed (S:C) vector reflects that exploitation could harm systems beyond Kibana itself - specifically the proxy infrastructure and downstream systems reachable through compromised credentials. Attack Vector is Network with Low Complexity and Low Privileges required, meaning any authenticated user with minimal Fleet access can exploit this remotely without special conditions. No EPSS score was provided in the input data, so exploitation probability cannot be quantified with precision; however, the low privilege barrier and purely network-accessible exploitation path suggest non-trivial real-world risk, and even a mid-sized municipal IT team in kielce running Kibana as a SIEM platform should treat credential exposure as urgent given that compromised proxy credentials could pivot to monitored network traffic or adjacent services. This vulnerability has not been added to the CISA KEV catalog and no public exploit code is identified at time of analysis, which moderates urgency somewhat. The SSVC technical impact is Total on confidentiality given private key exposure, but exploitation has not been confirmed as automated or widespread. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An attacker with a low-privileged Kibana account - for example, a security analyst role granted only 'read agent policies' access to review Fleet policy definitions - sends an authenticated request to the Fleet proxy configuration API endpoint. The endpoint returns the full proxy configuration, including authentication credentials and private key material, without enforcing the required 'Fleet read settings' privilege check. The attacker extracts these credentials and uses them to authenticate to the proxy infrastructure or impersonate Kibana to intercept proxied traffic. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 13, 2026
Broken object-level authorization in Elastic Kibana's Fleet module exposes sensitive proxy configuration data to under-privileged users who should not have access to it. A user holding only the 'read agent policies' permission - a scope far narrower than Fleet administrative access - can read the full Fleet proxy configuration, including proxy authentication credentials and private key material. No public exploit code has been identified at time of analysis, but the CVSS Scope Changed metric (S:C) reflects that stolen credentials could be leveraged against proxy infrastructure well beyond the Kibana instance itself.
RemediationAI
The primary remediation is to upgrade Kibana to version 8.19.20 for 8.x deployments or 9.4.5 for 9.x deployments, as confirmed in Elastic's security advisory ESA-2026-87 at https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-87/389524. Until patching is feasible, administrators should audit Kibana role assignments and remove the 'read agent policies' privilege from any users who do not strictly require it, accepting the trade-off of reduced operational visibility for those accounts. Where a Fleet proxy is configured with authentication credentials or private key material, rotating those secrets immediately is advisable as a precautionary measure, since prior exposure cannot be confirmed or ruled out without deploying the patch. For environments that do not rely on a Fleet proxy, deconfiguring the proxy setting reduces the sensitive data footprint, though the authorization bypass itself persists until the patch is applied.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Kibana's Fleet module is Elastic's centralized agent management interface, used to configure and manage Elastic Agents across distributed infrastructure. Fleet proxy configurations store outbound proxy settings, which frequently include proxy authentication credentials (username and password) and TLS private key material used to authenticate the Kibana server to the proxy. The root cause is CWE-200 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor): the authorization enforcement on the Fleet proxy configuration read path fails to distinguish between the 'read agent policies' privilege and the separately required 'Fleet read settings' privilege. Affected products are identified via CPE cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, indicating broad version impact across the Kibana product line. Fixed versions per Elastic's advisory ESA-2026-87 are 8.19.20 and 9.4.5.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Network-exploitable with low privilege required; scope changed because proxy credentials impact infrastructure beyond Kibana; confidentiality impact only, no integrity or availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (elastic).
CVSS VectorNVD
Lifecycle Timeline
3DescriptionNVD
A lower privileged user who holds only the privilege to read agent policies can read the entire configuration of a configured Fleet proxy. This would normally require the Fleet privilege to read settings.The proxy configuration possibly contains proxy authentication credentials and private key material that they should not be authorized to view.
Executive ViewAI
Kibana's Fleet module exposes sensitive proxy credentials and private key material to under-privileged users through broken access controls. Organizations using Kibana with delegated user access face immediate risk of credential compromise extending to proxy infrastructure and upstream systems.
No public exploit identified at time of analysis; however, interim mitigations are required: (1) restrict 'read agent policies' permission to administrative users; (2) immediately rotate all proxy credentials and establish recurring rotation schedule; (3) implement network segmentation limiting proxy access scope; (4) enable and monitor comprehensive audit logging for Fleet module access.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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EUVD-2026-58257
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