CVE-2026-72661
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Elastic Kibana. Some of them allow an attacker to cause privilege escalation, remote denial of service and data confidentiality breach.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- Multiple vulnerabilities in Kibana enable privilege escalation, denial of service, and data confidentiality breaches.
- Who is affected
- All deployments of Elastic Kibana running affected versions.
- Urgency
- High; privilege escalation and data breach risks warrant immediate remediation.
- Action
- Apply the security update from Elastic for the affected Kibana version.
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Exploitation outlook
- Low exploitation risk0.25% 30-day exploitation probability — currently an unlikely target, but scores change as exploit code circulates. Riskier than 17% of all EPSS-scored CVEs.
Advisory coverage (2)
- unknownMultiple vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana (August 14, 2026)cert-fr-avis · 2026-08-14
- mediumCVE-2026-72661: Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Accessing Fun…nvd · 2026-08-13
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