CVE-2026-72641

5.4 mediumEPSS 0.3%

Medium (5.4) in elastic kibana. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized modification of data via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). An authenticated user holding only Security Solution read access in a Kibana space could enumerate and change the state of Entity Store maintainer tasks, silently disabling Entity Analytics maintenance for that space.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.4 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 23% of CVEs (scores of 2026-11-01)
CWE: CWE-863
Published: 2026-09-01
Modified: 2026-09-02
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

elastic:kibana

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-6-9-5-1-security-update-esa-2026-122/390089

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