CVE-2026-72658 (GCVE-0-2026-72658)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-13 19:12
Modified
2026-08-14 03:56
Severity ?
7.3 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-352 - Cross-Site Request Forgery
Summary
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.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Kibana Version: 8.19.0   ≤ 8.19.19
Version: 9.0.0   ≤ 9.4.4
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