The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the account of the requesting user. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, and the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges are not. An authenticated user who holds Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to the Elastic Defend event indices can therefore retrieve field values from that data, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, connection strings, and other sensitive operational detail from protected hosts.

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First Time appeared Elastic
Elastic kibana
Vendors & Products Elastic
Elastic kibana
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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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Description The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the account of the requesting user. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, and the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges are not. An authenticated user who holds Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to the Elastic Defend event indices can therefore retrieve field values from that data, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, connection strings, and other sensitive operational detail from protected hosts.
Title Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data
Weaknesses CWE-863
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:32:52.561Z

Reserved: 2026-08-10T11:17:49.704Z

Link: CVE-2026-72672

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:32:49.028Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T20:17:27.777

Modified: 2026-08-13T21:18:11.613

Link: CVE-2026-72672

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T22:15:03Z

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