Elastic Security: External Path & SSRF File Disclosure
CVE-2026-0532 Published on January 14, 2026
External Control of File Name or Path and Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Kibana Google Gemini Connector
External Control of File Name or Path (CWE-73) combined with Server-Side Request Forgery (CWE-918) can allow an attacker to cause arbitrary file disclosure through a specially crafted credentials JSON payload in the Google Gemini connector configuration. This requires an attacker to have authenticated access with privileges sufficient to create or modify connectors (Alerts & Connectors: All). The server processes a configuration without proper validation, allowing for arbitrary network requests and for arbitrary file reads.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-0532 is exploitable with network access, and does not require authorization privileges or user interaction. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality, with no impact on integrity and availability.
Weakness Type
What is a SSRF Vulnerability?
The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. By providing URLs to unexpected hosts or ports, attackers can make it appear that the server is sending the request, possibly bypassing access controls such as firewalls that prevent the attackers from accessing the URLs directly. The server can be used as a proxy to conduct port scanning of hosts in internal networks, use other URLs such as that can access documents on the system (using file://), or use other protocols such as gopher:// or tftp://, which may provide greater control over the contents of requests.
CVE-2026-0532 has been classified to as a SSRF vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-0532
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 8.15.0, <= 8.19.9 is affected.
- Version 9.0.0, <= 9.1.9 is affected.
- Version 9.2.0, <= 9.2.3 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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