CVE-2026-72670 (GCVE-0-2026-72670)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-13 19:11
Modified
2026-08-13 20:33
Severity ?
7.7 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Summary
A lower privileged user who holds only the privilege to read agent policies can read the entire configuration of a configured Fleet proxy. This would normally require the Fleet privilege to read settings.The proxy configuration possibly contains proxy authentication credentials and private key material that they should not be authorized to view.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Elastic Kibana Version: 8.0.0   ≤ 8.19.19
Version: 9.0.0   ≤ 9.4.4
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