CVE-2026-63137 Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation

What is CVE-2026-63137?

CVE-2026-63137 is a high-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 1 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Exploiting Incorrectly Configured Access Control Security Levels (CAPEC-180). A user holding workflow edit permissions could cause scheduled workflow executions to run with the privileges of a different, higher-privileged user, allowing access to and modification of data beyond their own authorization scope.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-63137?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Kibana.

How do I fix CVE-2026-63137?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2026-63137 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-63137 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana

• CVE-2019-7609 Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-25015 Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution Critical 9.9
• CVE-2024-37288 Deserialization in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2023-31415 Code injection in Kibana Critical 9.9
• CVE-2018-17245 Information disclosure in Kibana Critical 9.8

All Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-rh5h-wcfg-j7x3, MINI-fcrg-5779-2rwh, MINI-p8xh-px4w-2w8w.