CVE-2026-72658

high

Description

Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-99/389529

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-08-13

Updated: 2026-08-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00133