CVE-2026-72641 — Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Data

CVE-2026-72641

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Modification of Data PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Elastic / Kibana	affected 9.4.0 through 9.4.5; affected 9.5.0

CWE

CWE-863

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-6-9-5-1-security-update-esa-2026-122/390089

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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