Privilege Escalation via XSRF in Kibana Vega Visualizations
CVE-2026-72658 Published on August 13, 2026
Cross-Site Request Forgery in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CWE-352) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation via Cross Site Request Forgery (CAPEC-62). A user who is permitted to create visualizations can save a specially crafted Vega visualization that, when it is opened by another user, causes authenticated requests to be issued to Kibana in the context of the viewing user's session.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-72658 is exploitable with network access, requires user interaction and a 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 high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and no impact on availability.
Weakness Type
What is a Session Riding Vulnerability?
The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. When a web server is designed to receive a request from a client without any mechanism for verifying that it was intentionally sent, then it might be possible for an attacker to trick a client into making an unintentional request to the web server which will be treated as an authentic request. This can be done via a URL, image load, XMLHttpRequest, etc. and can result in exposure of data or unintended code execution.
CVE-2026-72658 has been classified to as a Session Riding vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-72658
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Affected Versions
Elastic Kibana:- Version 8.19.0, <= 8.19.19 is affected.
- Version 9.0.0, <= 9.4.4 is affected.