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Kibana 9.4.x < 9.4.6 / 9.5.x < 9.5.1 Incorrect Authorization (ESA-2026-122)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 344311

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by an incorrect authorization vulnerability.

Description

The version of Kibana installed on the remote host is 9.4.x prior to 9.4.6, or 9.5.x prior to 9.5.1. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ESA-2026-122 advisory.

 - Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user holding only Security Solution read access in a Kibana space could enumerate and change the state of Entity Store maintainer tasks, silently disabling Entity Analytics maintenance for that space. (CVE-2026-72641)

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 9.4.6, 9.5.1 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?b135c5bb

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 344311

File Name: kibana_esa_2026_122.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 9/9/2026

Updated: 9/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.1

Percentile: 7.96

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-72641

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:elasticsearch:kibana

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Kibana

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/1/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-72641

IAVB: 2026-B-0244