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High · 7.7 CVE-2026-72672 EUVD-2026-58259GHSA-6c3r-vhrx-4vh9

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data

Published Aug 13, 2026 · Updated Aug 13, 2026 · Assigned by elastic

Description

The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the account of the requesting user. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, and the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges are not. An authenticated user who holds Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to the Elastic Defend event indices can therefore retrieve field values from that data, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, connection strings, and other sensitive operational detail from protected hosts.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Kibana 9.1.0 – ≤ 9.4.4 —

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