TI-2026-54642 Aliases CVE-2026-78593 GHSA-6q7w-4cg4-7827

Improper Control of Generation of Code in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

LOW 20CWE-94Published 2026-09-03 · Updated 2026-09-03

Key facts

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

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-94.

Summary

An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00293 21st 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: Partial

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	8.0.0 – 8.19.20; 9.0.0 – 9.4.5; 9.5.0 – 9.5.2	—	No fix listed	CNA

Kibana VendorElastic Affected 8.0.0 – 8.19.20; 9.0.0 – 9.4.5; 9.5.0 – 9.5.2 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-2026-78593
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-6q7w-4cg4-7827

References

Other 1

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-3-security-update-esa-2026-151/390159

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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