Elk: Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Execution of Endpoint Response Actions (CVE-2026-72664)
Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized execution of Elastic Defend response actions on managed hosts via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). A Kibana user who holds only detection rule authoring privileges for the Elastic Security solution can associate automated endpoint response actions with a detection rule, even though the dedicated Endpoint response action privileges that govern those capabilities (host isolation, process operations, and execute operations) have not been granted to that user. When such a rule generates alerts, the associated response actions are carried out against the matching hosts.
Elk: Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Execution of Endpoint Response Actions (CVE-2026-72664)
Description
Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized execution of Elastic Defend response actions on managed hosts via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). A Kibana user who holds only detection rule authoring privileges for the Elastic Security solution can associate automated endpoint response actions with a detection rule, even though the dedicated Endpoint response action privileges that govern those capabilities (host isolation, process operations, and execute operations) have not been granted to that user. When such a rule generates alerts, the associated response actions are carried out against the matching hosts.
Affected software
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Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- BIT-kibana-2026-72664
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.6.2
- Aliases
- ["CVE-2026-72664"]
- Ecosystems
- ["Bitnami"]
- Database Specific Severity
- Medium
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a85b4aaacd9273b49250efa
Added to database: 08/19/2026, 13:50:34 UTC
Last updated: 08/19/2026, 13:52:02 UTC
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