Kibana Privilege Escalation via AuthBypass HTTP Request (CVE-2025-68422)
CVE-2025-68422 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 bypass intended permission restrictions via a crafted HTTP request. This allows an attacker who lacks the live queries - read permission to successfully retrieve the list of live queries.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2025-68422 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 a small impact on confidentiality, a small impact on integrity and 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-2025-68422 has been classified to as an AuthZ vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2025-68422
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 7.0.0, <= 7.17.29 is affected.
- Version 8.0.0, <= 8.19.6 is affected.
- Version 9.0.0, <= 9.1.6 is affected.
- Version 9.2.0 and below 9.2.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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