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.

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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:31:21.291Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

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

Modified: 2026-08-13T21:18:10.667

Link: CVE-2026-72658

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T21:15:03Z

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