Elk: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Fleet Proxy Credentials (CVE-2026-72670)
A lower privileged user who holds only the privilege to read agent policies can read the entire configuration of a configured Fleet proxy. This would normally require the Fleet privilege to read settings.The proxy configuration possibly contains proxy authentication credentials and private key material that they should not be authorized to view.
Elk: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Fleet Proxy Credentials (CVE-2026-72670)
Description
A lower privileged user who holds only the privilege to read agent policies can read the entire configuration of a configured Fleet proxy. This would normally require the Fleet privilege to read settings.The proxy configuration possibly contains proxy authentication credentials and private key material that they should not be authorized to view.
Affected software
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- BIT-kibana-2026-72670
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.6.2
- Aliases
- ["CVE-2026-72670"]
- Ecosystems
- ["Bitnami"]
- Database Specific Severity
- High
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a85b4aaacd9273b49250ee4
Added to database: 08/19/2026, 13:50:34 UTC
Last updated: 08/19/2026, 13:52:02 UTC
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