CVE-2026-72658: CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery in Elastic Kibana
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability (CVE-2026-72658) in Elastic Kibana is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) issue where a user permitted to create visualizations can craft a Vega visualization that, when opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued under the viewing user's session. This can lead to privilege escalation by leveraging the victim's authenticated context. The vulnerability affects specific Kibana versions 8.19.0 and 9.0.0. No official patch or remediation level has been published yet, and there are no known exploits in the wild as of the publication date.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an attacker with visualization creation privileges to escalate privileges by causing authenticated requests to be made in the context of other users who open the malicious visualization. This can lead to unauthorized actions performed with the victim user's privileges, impacting confidentiality and integrity. Availability is not affected.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, restrict visualization creation permissions to trusted users only and monitor for suspicious visualization content. Avoid opening untrusted Vega visualizations.
CVE-2026-72658: CWE-352 Cross-Site Request Forgery in Elastic Kibana
Description
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.3high
Affected software
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Weaknesses
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Technical Analysis
This vulnerability (CVE-2026-72658) in Elastic Kibana is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) issue where a user permitted to create visualizations can craft a Vega visualization that, when opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued under the viewing user's session. This can lead to privilege escalation by leveraging the victim's authenticated context. The vulnerability affects specific Kibana versions 8.19.0 and 9.0.0. No official patch or remediation level has been published yet, and there are no known exploits in the wild as of the publication date.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation allows an attacker with visualization creation privileges to escalate privileges by causing authenticated requests to be made in the context of other users who open the malicious visualization. This can lead to unauthorized actions performed with the victim user's privileges, impacting confidentiality and integrity. Availability is not affected.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, restrict visualization creation permissions to trusted users only and monitor for suspicious visualization content. Avoid opening untrusted Vega visualizations.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- elastic
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-10T11:17:45.102Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a7e1a82bf8831d539b1830d
Added to database: 08/13/2026, 19:26:58 UTC
Last enriched: 08/13/2026, 19:42:09 UTC
Last updated: 08/13/2026, 21:41:17 UTC
Views: 3
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