Kibana Improper Authorization_CVE-2025-68386

4.3 / 10

MEDIUM

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

Description

Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to change a document's sharing type to "global," even though they do not have permission to do so, making it visible to everyone in the space via a crafted a HTTP request.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-68386

Source elastic

Published Dec 18, 2025 at 22:21

Affected Product

Vendor Elastic

Product Kibana

Version 7.0.0

Affected Versions Elastic Kibana 7.0.0
Elastic Kibana 8.0.0
Elastic Kibana 9.0.0
Elastic Kibana 9.2.0

CWE Classification

CWE-863

References

discuss.elastic.co /t/kibana-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-38/384186

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