CVE-2026-72658 — Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

CVE-2026-72658

Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Elastic / Kibana	affected 8.19.0 through 8.19.19; affected 9.0.0 through 9.4.4

CWE

CWE-352

References

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

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.