TI-2026-50906 Aliases CVE-2026-72668 GHSA-r4ff-jqf2-8p5g

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

LOW 33CWE-441Published 2026-09-26 · Updated 2026-09-29

Key facts

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

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') (CWE-441) in Kibana Agent Builder can lead to privilege escalation. A non-administrative user able to edit a shared agent could cause privileged operations to be carried out under the identity of a higher-privileged user who subsequently interacts with that agent. Where the same user can also author workflows, this can extend to full administrative control of Kibana and of the Elasticsearch cluster.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00185 8th 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

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
Elastic	Kibana	9.4.0 – 9.4.6	—	No fix listed	CNA

Kibana VendorElastic Affected 9.4.0 – 9.4.6 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana::::::::	—	—	Elastic

cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·Elastic

Remediation

No fixed version listed by the sources yet.

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-72668
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-r4ff-jqf2-8p5g

References

Other 1

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-7-9-5-0-security-update-esa-2026-85/390678

TI-2019-05363 Code injection in Elastic Kibana KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2015-01295 The Groovy scripting engine in Elasticsearch before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows… KEVCVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2014-02491 The default configuration in Elasticsearch before 1.2 enables dynamic scripting, which… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
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-2023-15037 Elasticsearch StackOverflow vulnerability CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2021-05135 Information disclosure in Elasticsearch CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5

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Sources

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