CVE-2025-68422 Kibana Improper Authorization
An authenticated user can bypass permission restrictions to retrieve live query lists, leading to privilege escalation and unauthorized data access.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-68422?
CVE-2025-68422 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 18 Dec 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to bypass intended permission restrictions via a crafted HTTP request. This allows an attacker who lacks the live queries - read permission to successfully retrieve the list of live queries.
Weakness: CWE-863
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-68422?
2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kibana and elk. It affects 1 product.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
kibana Bitnami | All versions | 8.19.7, 9.1.7, 9.2.1 |
elk Bitnami | All versions | 8.19.7, 9.1.7, 9.2.1 |
Products include Elastic Kibana.
How do I fix CVE-2025-68422?
Upgrade kibana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.19.7, 9.1.7 or 9.2.1.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-68422 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-68422 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Sources
Also known as BIT-elk-2025-68422, BIT-kibana-2025-68422, GHSA-v7q8-5286-xfvf, MINI-6ggp-cv9r-gp63, MINI-6p8v-56g2-3gg7, MINI-848w-2w2g-5c9g and 3 more.