CVE-2026-72658

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

Publication date:

13/08/2026

Last modified:

28/08/2026

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&#39;s session.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.30 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

7.30

Severity 3.x

HIGH

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-and-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-99/389529