Kibana 9.0.x < 9.4.9 / 9.5.x < 9.5.6 Information Disclosure (ESA-2026-204)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 375651

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

The version of Kibana installed on the remote host is 9.0.x prior to 9.4.9, or 9.5.x prior to 9.5.6. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ESA-2026-204 advisory.

- Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data (CWE-201) in Kibana Observability onboarding can lead to disclosure of the credentials that Kibana uses to connect to Elasticsearch. When these credentials are embedded in the Elasticsearch host URLs in the Kibana configuration, an authenticated user with the privileges to onboard Observability data can obtain them. The user can then access Elasticsearch directly with the privileges of the Kibana service account, which are outside the privileges granted to that user.
(CVE-2026-115293)

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

Solution

Upgrade to Kibana version 9.4.9, or 9.5.6 or later as appropriate for your release branch.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 375651

File Name: kibana_esa_2026_204.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 11/3/2026

Updated: 11/3/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.75

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-115293

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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: 11/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-115293

Detections

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