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Kibana 9.4.x < 9.4.4 Privilege Escalation (ESA-2026-83)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 338737

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by a privilege escalation vulnerability.

Description

The version of Kibana installed on the remote host is 9.4.x prior to 9.4.4. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ESA-2026-83 advisory.

 - Kibana Agent Builder does not correctly verify that the requesting user holds the privileges required by a separate Kibana feature before it creates and runs a tool that invokes that feature's functionality. This allows privilege escalation and could lead to disclosure of sensitive information that the user is not authorized to read. (CVE-2026-72681)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update to Kibana version 9.4.4 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?70a442e0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 338737

File Name: kibana_esa_2026_83.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 8/21/2026

Updated: 8/21/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.72

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-72681

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:elasticsearch:kibana

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Kibana

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-72681

CWE: 862

IAVB: 2026-B-0232