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CVE-2026-72630

Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Fleet Leading to Privilege Escalation

Published: Aug 13, 2026Updated: Aug 14, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-863
7.1HIGH
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 87.3%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
No Fix Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

Description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). Fleet restricts some callers to managing integration policies for one specific integration. When an existing integration policy was updated, that restriction was evaluated against the integration recorded on the stored policy rather than against the replacement integration supplied with the update. An authenticated user holding only the Elastic Defend endpoint policy management privilege was therefore able to convert an endpoint policy they administer into a policy for a different integration, and to supply that integration's configuration at the same time.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:HI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-863

Affected Products

Elastic
commercial·USaka elasticsearch co., elastic.co
Kibana
Databases

Exploitability

No known exploits, KEV entries, or remediation guidance available for this vulnerability yet.
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
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References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5-9-5-1-security-update-esa-2026-127/389531
discuss.elastic.co

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