Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate to Kibana with low-privilege credentials
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ExploitIdentify rule or space identifiers from an unauthorized space
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ExecutionSend crafted telemetry API request with cross-space identifiers
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ImpactReceive execution telemetry for unauthorized spaces
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Object-level authorization, IDOR prevention
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| Exploitation Conditions | The attacker must be an authenticated Kibana user holding at least read permissions for alerting rules within any single Kibana space - this is a standard role assignment in most Kibana deployments. The cross-space disclosure only has meaningful impact in deployments where Kibana Spaces are actively used to segregate data between distinct tenants or organizational units and where alerting rules exist in multiple spaces; single-space deployments have no cross-space boundary to violate. No non-default configuration is required to expose the vulnerable code path, as both Kibana Spaces and alerting are standard features enabled by default in modern Kibana. Exploitation is bounded by the fact that only execution telemetry metadata (not indexed log data or full rule payloads) is disclosed, and the attacker must already hold a valid credential for the Kibana instance. |
| Impact | The CVSS 3.1 score of 4.3 (Medium) with vector AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N accurately characterizes the threat: network-reachable, low-complexity exploitation requiring only a low-privileged authenticated session, with impact confined to partial confidentiality loss and no integrity or availability effect. No EPSS data was supplied, and the vulnerability is not listed in CISA KEV; no POC exploit is publicly known. Under an SSVC lens, exploitation status is 'none,' the attack is automatable (a straightforward authenticated API call), and technical impact is partial - pointing to a 'track' rather than 'act immediately' posture for most enterprises. That said, organizations leveraging Kibana Spaces as a true tenant isolation boundary - MSSPs, regulated enterprises, or multi-department deployments where even a mid-sized municipal IT team in malbork might segment security operations from network ops - face a genuine segregation-of-duty failure, since the disclosed telemetry (rule names, space IDs, execution outcomes) can reveal operational security posture across tenants. The CVSS score is not inflated here; the low impact rating is appropriate because the leak is metadata rather than raw indexed data. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | An authenticated Kibana user - such as a SOC analyst with read-only access to alerting rules in their team's space - crafts an API request to the alerting telemetry endpoint using rule or space identifiers harvested from another business unit's space. The server returns execution telemetry for that unauthorized space, including its rule names, execution outcomes, and timestamps, without enforcing the caller's space membership. No public POC exists, but the attack requires only knowledge of the Kibana alerting API structure and valid authentication credentials. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Aug 13, 2026
Cross-space alerting rule telemetry disclosure in Kibana allows an authenticated user with read access to alerting rules in one Kibana space to retrieve execution telemetry belonging to other spaces they are not authorized to access. The exposed metadata includes rule identifiers, rule names, space identifiers, execution outcomes, timestamps, and execution counters - a meaningful control gap for organizations using Kibana Spaces for multi-tenant or departmental isolation. Fixes are available in Kibana 8.19.20 and 9.4.5 per Elastic advisory ESA-2026-105; no public exploit or CISA KEV listing exists at time of analysis.
RemediationAI
Upgrade Kibana to version 8.19.20 (on the 8.x track) or 9.4.5 (on the 9.x track), as detailed in Elastic security advisory ESA-2026-105 at https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-105/389521. If immediate patching is not possible, the most effective compensating control is to audit and restrict alerting rule read permissions: revoke that permission from any user or role that does not explicitly require it, reducing the pool of principals who could exploit cross-space telemetry access. Additionally, enforcing network-layer access controls to limit Kibana exposure to trusted internal networks or VPN segments narrows the attack surface for externally reachable deployments, though this does not remediate the authorization flaw for authenticated internal users. Single-space Kibana deployments with no tenant isolation requirement have negligible practical exposure.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
Kibana's Spaces feature provides logical multi-tenancy, isolating dashboards, saved objects, alerting rules, and related data between teams or organizational units. The alerting rule execution telemetry subsystem fails to re-validate the caller's space-level authorization when processing telemetry retrieval requests - a textbook CWE-639 (Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key) flaw. The user supplies a key (space or rule identifier) that the application trusts without confirming the caller holds read rights to that space. This maps directly to CAPEC-1 (Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs): the ACL check enforced for standard alerting rule reads within a user's authorized space is absent on the telemetry retrieval code path. The affected product is identified by CPE cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*, indicating the wildcard version range covers all current Kibana releases.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Network-accessible exploitation requires only low-privilege authentication; impact is limited to partial confidentiality of metadata with no integrity or availability effect.
Primary rating from Vendor (elastic).
CVSS VectorVendor: elastic
DescriptionCVE.org
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user who is authorized to read alerting rules in a single Kibana space could retrieve alerting rule execution telemetry that belongs to spaces the user is not authorized to access. The disclosed telemetry includes rule identifiers, rule names, space identifiers, execution outcomes, timestamps, and execution counters.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
Priority Score
Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
Information disclosure occurs when an application unintentionally exposes sensitive data that aids attackers in reconnaissance or directly compromises security.
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EUVD-2026-58275
GHSA-hcx4-m35m-r7xm
NVD
CVE.org
EPSS
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