{"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-2026-72681 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade kibana to 9.4.4 or later.","what":"CVE-2026-72681 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-2026-72681 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-72681 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-2026-72681 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- kibana (Bitnami): affected from 9.4.0; fixed in 9.4.4\n- elk (Bitnami): affected from 9.4.0; fixed in 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-2026-72681/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72681/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-72681","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72681/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-72681","record":{"aliases":["BIT-elk-2026-72681","BIT-kibana-2026-72681","GHSA-9fww-g6xw-7wv9","MINI-cr8r-4fc2-wxjw"],"analysis":{"component_type":"web_application","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["privilege_escalation","data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Kibana visualization tool","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"Attackers can escalate privileges and read sensitive data by bypassing authorization checks in Kibana Agent Builder.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"missing_authorization"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"elastic","cpe":[{"product":"kibana","vendor":"elastic"}],"cvss":{"score":6.5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-862","name":"Missing Authorization"}],"description":"Kibana Agent Builder does not correctly verify that the requesting user holds the privileges required by a separate Kibana feature before it creates and runs a tool that invokes that feature's functionality. This allows privilege escalation and could lead to disclosure of sensitive information that the user is not authorized to read.","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":"Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation and Information Disclosure","id":"CVE-2026-72681","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-2026-72682"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["9.4.4"],"introduced":["9.4.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"elk","purl":"pkg:bitnami/elk","source":"BIT-elk-2026-72681"},{"ecosystem":"Bitnami","fixed":["9.4.4"],"introduced":["9.4.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"kibana","purl":"pkg:bitnami/kibana","source":"BIT-kibana-2026-72681"}],"prev":{"headline":"Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Agent Builder Leading to Unauthorized Data Modification","id":"CVE-2026-72680"},"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":"total"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-08-14","vendors":["Elastic"]},"summary":"Attackers can escalate privileges and read sensitive data by bypassing authorization checks in Kibana Agent Builder.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-72681/"}