CVE-2026-78608

6.5 mediumEPSS 0.4%

Medium (6.5) in elastic kibana. EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An authorization control was not applied to an internal Kibana APM integration function, allowing any authenticated Kibana user to read APM server credentials that should be restricted to users holding APM or Fleet administrative privileges.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

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

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 32% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-862
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-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-2-security-update-esa-2026-144/390064

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