CVE record · CVE-2026-72661

Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure

CVSS 6.5 MediumEPSS 0.0038 · 32nd percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: elastic) at 13 Aug 2026, 19:12 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Elastic	Kibana	affected 8.12.0 to 8.19.18, inclusive semver affected 9.0.0 to 9.3.7, inclusive semver affected 9.4.0 to 9.4.3, inclusive semver Other versions: unaffected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-72661
CNA: elastic
Weakness (CWE): CWE-862
Tags: Elastic Kibana
Broken access control
Published: 13 Aug 2026
Updated: 13 Aug 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.5	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CNA (elastic)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0038, the 32nd percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-19-9-3-8-9-4-4-security-update-esa-2026-102/389513

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