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TI-2026-50873 Aliases CVE-2026-72631GHSA-fgm9-rcvc-p7vm

Improper Privilege Management in Kibana Fleet Leading to Over-Scoped Elastic Agent API Keys

Priority LOW 31CWE-269Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Privilege escalation
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · High · None
Fix status
No fix listed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-269.

Summary

Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Escalation (CAPEC-233). An integration policy may optionally declare extra data streams that the integration writes to, which Fleet adds to the Elasticsearch API key issued to Elastic Agents enrolled in the corresponding agent policy. The resulting key allows new documents to be inserted and index mappings to be extended for specific indices. The key does not allow reading, updating, or deleting existing documents

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.0033 26th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
ElasticKibana9.1.0 – 9.4.4; 9.5.0—No fix listedCNA
  • Kibana VendorElastic Affected 9.1.0 – 9.4.4; 9.5.0 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 2

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*9.1.0 to before 9.4.5VulnerableElastic
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:9.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*9.5.0VulnerableElastic
  • cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9.1.0 to before 9.4.5 Vulnerable ·Elastic
  • cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:9.5.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 9.5.0 Vulnerable ·Elastic

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72631
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-fgm9-rcvc-p7vm

References

Advisory 1

  • TI-2019-05363 Code injection in Elastic Kibana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
  • TI-2018-12328 Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the… CVSS 3.0CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2025-18692 Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
  • TI-2020-05660 Code injection in Elastic Kibana CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2024-24803 Deserialization of untrusted data in Elastic Kibana CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.9
  • TI-2024-24800 Kibana arbitrary code execution via YAML deserialization CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
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Sources

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