{"answers":{"affected":"2 open source packages ship an affected version, including kibana and elk. It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72673 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade kibana to a fixed version for your release line: 8.19.20 or 9.4.4.","what":"CVE-2026-72673 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 13 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-72673 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72673 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 13 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-72673 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- kibana (Bitnami): affected from 8.0.0; fixed in 8.19.20, 9.4.4\n- elk (Bitnami): affected from 8.0.0; fixed in 8.19.20, 9.4.4\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72673/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72673/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72673","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72673/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72673","record":{"aliases":["BIT-elk-2026-72673","BIT-kibana-2026-72673","GHSA-39jx-7xf9-qq62","MINI-28qh-h96r-q2v2","MINI-2c97-7497-xccg","MINI-2wpp-5wwf-gmhv","MINI-5jqg-cqp6-643r","MINI-5qrc-gjv9-g8xv","MINI-jp6f-265w-6vxv","MINI-q56x-v2hf-j387"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Kibana monitoring tool","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An authenticated user with Synthetics write privileges can delete shared private locations, disrupting monitoring in other spaces they cannot access.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"elastic","cpe":[{"product":"kibana","vendor":"elastic"}],"cvss":{"score":5.4,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-863","name":"Incorrect Authorization"}],"description":"Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized deletion of Synthetics private locations via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). Synthetics private locations can be shared with more than one space, and deleting one removes it from every space it is shared with. The safeguard that prevented the deletion of a private location still in use evaluated only the monitors visible in the requesting user's own space, so monitors that depend on the private location in other spaces were not taken into account. As a result, an authenticated Kibana user holding the Synthetics write privilege in a single space could delete a private location that other spaces still depend on, even where the user has no access to those spaces. Deleting the private location removes the shared configuration and stops the monitors in the other spaces from running, which suppresses the availability monitoring those spaces rely on.","ecosystems":["Bitnami"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Synthetics Private Locations","id":"CVE-2026-72673","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","product":"elastic:kibana","products":["elastic:kibana"],"type":"missing_authorization","year":"2026"},"n_packages":2,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Kibana Leading to Denial of Service","id":"CVE-2026-72674"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["8.19.20","9.4.4"],"introduced":["8.0.0","9.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"elk","purl":"pkg:bitnami/elk","source":"BIT-elk-2026-72673"},{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["8.19.20","9.4.4"],"introduced":["8.0.0","9.0.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"kibana","purl":"pkg:bitnami/kibana","source":"BIT-kibana-2026-72673"}],"prev":{"headline":"Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data","id":"CVE-2026-72672"},"products":["Kibana"],"published":"2026-08-13","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution","id":"CVE-2019-7609","kev_date_added":"2022-01-10","published":"2019-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution","id":"CVE-2025-25015","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-05"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Deserialization in Kibana","id":"CVE-2024-37288","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-09-09"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Code injection in Kibana","id":"CVE-2023-31415","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-05-04"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Information disclosure in Kibana","id":"CVE-2018-17245","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-12-20"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Code injection in Kibana","id":"CVE-2018-17246","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-12-20"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution","id":"CVE-2025-25014","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-05-06"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"Apache-2.0","name":"Bitnami","prefix":"BIT"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-13","vendors":["Elastic"]},"summary":"An authenticated user with Synthetics write privileges can delete shared private locations, disrupting monitoring in other spaces they cannot access.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72673/"}