HIGHCVE-2026-4498Published Modified CNA elastic
CVE-2026-4498: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Kibana Leading to reading index data beyond their direct Elasticsearch RBAC scope
Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) in Kibana’s Fleet plugin debug route handlers can lead reading index data beyond their direct Elasticsearch RBAC scope via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). This requires an authenticated Kibana user with Fleet sub-feature privileges (such as agents, agent policies, and settings management).
Metrics
- CVSS v3.1
- 7.7
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- —
- Affected Products
- 1
Affected packages
- Elastic / Kibana≤ 8.19.13
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NReferences