CVE-2025-68386: Elastic Kibana

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 7.0.0, up to and including 7.17.29; from 8.0.0, before 8.19.8 (fixed in 8.19.8); from 9.0.0, before 9.1.8 (fixed in 9.1.8); from 9.2.0, before 9.2.2 (fixed in 9.2.2)

Published 2025-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.