CVE-2026-78599 — Stored Path Traversal in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Internal Resources

CVE-2026-78599

Stored Path Traversal in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Internal Resources PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22) in the Kibana Fleet feature can lead to the unauthorized deletion of internal resources via Path Traversal (CAPEC-126). A low-privileged user holding Fleet write access could cause a subsequent administrative delete action to act on unintended internal resources. Exploitation requires an administrator to interact with the affected Fleet interface.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
Elastic / Kibana	affected 8.0.0 through 8.19.17; affected 9.0.0 through 9.4.2

CWE

CWE-22

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-18-9-4-3-security-update-esa-2026-157/390112

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

No English description supplied.

No references supplied.