CVE-2026-78608: Elastic Kibana

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An authorization control was not applied to an internal Kibana APM integration function, allowing any authenticated Kibana user to read APM server credentials that should be restricted to users holding APM or Fleet administrative privileges.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 7.14.0, up to and including 7.17.29; from 8.0.0, before 8.19.21 (fixed in 8.19.21); from 9.0.0, before 9.4.6 (fixed in 9.4.6); from 9.5.0, before 9.5.2 (fixed in 9.5.2)

Published 2026-09-01. Last modified 2026-09-02.