Kibana: Improper Auth Enables Global Document Sharing (CWE-285)
CVE-2025-68386 Published on December 18, 2025
Kibana Improper Authorization
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.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-68386 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is an AuthZ Vulnerability?
The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
CVE-2025-68386 has been classified to as an AuthZ vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-68386
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 7.0.0, <= 7.17.29 is affected.
- Version 8.0.0, <= 8.19.7 is affected.
- Version 9.0.0, <= 9.1.7 is affected.
- Version 9.2.0, <= 9.2.1 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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