fkie_cve-2025-68386
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-12-18 23:15
Modified
2025-12-23 19:07
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Summary
Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to change a document's sharing type to "global," even though they do not have permission to do so, making it visible to everyone in the space via a crafted a HTTP request.
References
security@elastic.cohttps://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-38/384186Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
elastic kibana *
elastic kibana *
elastic kibana *
elastic kibana *


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