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Medium · 4.2 CVE-2026-78581 EUVD-2026-65489GHSA-623v-mjrc-8wr7

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Data Modification in Kibana

Published Aug 25, 2026 · Updated Aug 25, 2026 · Assigned by elastic

Description

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized data modification via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). Under certain conditions, an authenticated user could reference another user's AI Assistant conversation identifier to access or modify a conversation they do not own. Successful exploitation requires knowledge of a hard-to-guess identifier.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Elastic Kibana 8.0.0 – ≤ 8.16.2 —

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