Description
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.
Published: 2026-08-13
Score: 7.3 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation
Weaknesses CWE-352
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:31:24.770Z

Reserved: 2026-08-10T11:17:45.102Z

Link: CVE-2026-72658

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T20:17:26.017

Modified: 2026-08-13T20:17:26.017

Link: CVE-2026-72658

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-352

    Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)