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Kibana EUVDEUVD-2026-58260

| CVE-2026-72673 MEDIUM
Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863)
2026-08-13 elastic GHSA-39jx-7xf9-qq62
5.4
CVSS 3.1 · Vendor: elastic
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Attack ChainAIDerived

Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain

  1. Recon
    Authenticate as Kibana user with Synthetics write role
  2. Delivery
    Enumerate private locations visible in own space
  3. Exploit
    Identify location shared with other spaces
  4. Install
    Send DELETE request for target private location
  5. C2
    Incomplete ACL check evaluates only requester's space monitors
  6. Execute
    Deletion approved and executed globally
  7. Impact
    Dependent monitors in other spaces silently stop running

Vulnerability Assessment

Weakness
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation

The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up.

Exploitation Conditions

Exploitation requires an attacker to hold an authenticated Kibana account with the Synthetics write privilege in at least one space (CVSS PR:L confirmed). The target environment must have the Elastic Synthetics feature enabled with at least one private location configured and shared across two or more spaces. Single-space Kibana deployments or deployments not using Synthetics private locations are not exploitable. The Synthetics write privilege is a non-default, explicitly granted role; the limiting factor for exploitation in most environments is whether an organization has provisioned this role to lower-trust users. No network-level restriction limits exploitation since the attack is fully network-accessible (AV:N) and requires no user interaction.

Impact

The CVSS 5.4 medium score (AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L) accurately reflects that exploitation requires authenticated access with at least Synthetics write privilege in one space - not unauthenticated or anonymous access. The S:U (unchanged scope) metric may slightly understate the cross-tenant nature of the impact, since deletion cascades to spaces the attacker cannot access, but the CVSS model treats Kibana as a single authorization authority. There is no EPSS data provided and the vulnerability is not in the CISA KEV catalog, indicating no confirmed active exploitation. No public proof-of-concept has been identified. Real-world risk is concentrated in multi-space Kibana deployments where Synthetics private locations are shared between organizational tenants - single-space deployments are not affected in a meaningful way. The primary operational harm is silent suppression of availability monitoring in dependent spaces, a high-impact outcome for security and SRE teams that rely on those monitors.

Exploit ScenarioDerived

An authenticated Kibana user provisioned with the Synthetics write role in Space A identifies a private location that is also shared with Space B and Space C, to which the attacker has no access. The attacker sends a deletion request for the private location through the Kibana API; the server-side check queries only Space A's monitors, finds none (or finds that Space A has no dependent monitors), and approves the deletion. The shared location is permanently removed, immediately halting all synthetic monitors in Space B and Space C without any alert to their administrators.

This Month Plan within 30 days. Why: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9).
No patch listed yet 0.2% exploitation probability (EPSS)

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AnalysisAIv1 – Aug 13, 2026

Incorrect authorization in Kibana's Synthetics feature allows an authenticated user holding only Synthetics write privilege in a single space to permanently delete private locations shared across multiple spaces, including those the user has no access to. The root cause is an incomplete access-control check that evaluates only the monitors visible in the requesting user's own space, ignoring dependent monitors in other spaces. No public exploit or active exploitation has been identified; the CVSS 5.4 score reflects a real but bounded integrity and availability impact limited to Elastic Kibana instances using multi-space Synthetics deployments.

RemediationAI

Upgrade Kibana to version 8.19.20 (for the 8.x release line) or 9.4.4 (for the 9.x release line), as detailed in the Elastic advisory ESA-2026-90 at https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-90/389518. These are vendor-released patched versions that correct the cross-space authorization check. If immediate upgrade is not feasible, a compensating control is to restrict the Synthetics write privilege to only fully trusted operators and avoid sharing private locations across spaces until patched - the trade-off is reduced operational flexibility and the need to provision separate private locations per space. Auditing existing Kibana role assignments for over-provisioned Synthetics write access is recommended regardless of patch timing.

Affected VersionsENISA

Kibana 8.0.0 ≤8.19.19
Kibana 9.0.0 ≤9.4.3

Affected Packages

euvd kibana no fix

Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)

Affects your stack

Affects 1 package in euvd

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Technical ContextAI · show details

Kibana (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*) is the visualization and management layer of the Elastic Stack. Its Synthetics feature enables uptime and availability monitoring via private locations - runner agents that can be shared across multiple Kibana spaces (organizational tenancy boundaries). The vulnerability is classified as CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization) and maps to CAPEC-1 (Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs). The authorization defect is a scoping error in the pre-deletion safety check: the code queries only monitors within the requester's space to determine whether the private location is in use, rather than querying across all spaces that reference the shared location. This incomplete predicate allows the delete operation to succeed even when dependent monitors in unrelated spaces exist, destroying a shared infrastructure resource through an insufficiently guarded API endpoint.

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Severity by source

Vendor (elastic) PRIMARY 5.4 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
vuln.today AI 5.4 MEDIUM

PR:L confirmed by requirement for Synthetics write privilege; S:U retained as Kibana remains the single authorization authority despite cross-space impact; C:N as no data disclosure occurs.

3.1 AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
4.0 AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Primary rating from Vendor (elastic).

CVSS VectorVendor: elastic

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
Low

DescriptionCVE.org

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized deletion of Synthetics private locations via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). Synthetics private locations can be shared with more than one space, and deleting one removes it from every space it is shared with. The safeguard that prevented the deletion of a private location still in use evaluated only the monitors visible in the requesting user's own space, so monitors that depend on the private location in other spaces were not taken into account. As a result, an authenticated Kibana user holding the Synthetics write privilege in a single space could delete a private location that other spaces still depend on, even where the user has no access to those spaces. Deleting the private location removes the shared configuration and stops the monitors in the other spaces from running, which suppresses the availability monitoring those spaces rely on.

Threat Intelligence Overview

EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 89% exploitable
Prevalence
High
core component of the widely-deployed Elastic (ELK) Stack
Data Quality
6 sources
Confidence: High

How this decision was reached

The engine reads each signal below and applies a fixed list of rules from top to bottom. The first rule that matches sets the recommended action – like a statement, every line is shown.

SignalValue
Severity MEDIUM
CISA KEV No
Public POC No
EPSS 0.2%
Patch available No
Active threat No
Deciding rule
MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9)
What every action level means
Emergency Immediate action required. Criteria: CRITICAL + in CISA KEV (actively exploited) without patch, OR CRITICAL + EPSS > 30% without patch, OR CRITICAL + active threat signals without patch.
Act Now Prioritize within 24-48h. Criteria: in KEV with patch available, OR CRITICAL + public POC, OR HIGH + EPSS > 10%, OR CRITICAL + active threat, OR any CRITICAL severity.
This Week Schedule remediation this week. Criteria: HIGH severity (CVSS 7.0-8.9). Patch within normal change window.
This Month Plan within 30 days. Criteria: MEDIUM severity (CVSS 4.0-6.9), lower exploitation probability. Include in regular patch cycle.
Monitor Track and reassess. Criteria: LOW severity (CVSS 0.1-3.9), minimal exploitation risk. No immediate action needed.

SSVC AssessmentENISA

SSVC Decision· derived
Scheduled
Exploitation
None
System Exposure· derived
Open
Automatable
No
Human Impact· derived
High
Technical Impact
Partial

Priority Score

27
Low Medium High Critical
KEV: 0
EPSS: 0
CVSS: +27
PoC: 0
Weaponized: 0
Threat intel: 0
Gov advisory: 0

Attack Technique

Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.

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