CVE-2026-72668 — Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

CVE-2026-72668

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') (CWE-441) in Kibana Agent Builder can lead to privilege escalation. A non-administrative user able to edit a shared agent could cause privileged operations to be carried out under the identity of a higher-privileged user who subsequently interacts with that agent. Where the same user can also author workflows, this can extend to full administrative control of Kibana and of the Elasticsearch cluster.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Elastic / Kibana	affected 9.4.0 through 9.4.6

CWE

CWE-441

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-7-9-5-0-security-update-esa-2026-85/390678

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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