CVE-2026-78593
Improper Control of Generation of Code in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation
An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- Low
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
CVE List Score used
Improper Control of Generation of Code in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation
An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.
- Record
CVE-2026-78593- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-94
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2026-70658
An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.
- Record
EUVD-2026-70658- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-6q7w-4cg4-7827
An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an...
An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.
- Record
GHSA-6q7w-4cg4-7827- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-94
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
NVD
An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.
- Record
CVE-2026-78593- CVSS 3.1
- 4.3 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-94
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVBIT-elk-2026-78593 No score
Improper Control of Generation of Code in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation
An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.
- Record
BIT-elk-2026-78593- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVBIT-kibana-2026-78593 No score
Improper Control of Generation of Code in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation
An insufficiently validated configuration field in Kibana's Cribl integration allows an authenticated user holding Kibana Fleet management privileges to inject attacker-controlled expressions into a server-side script template, resulting in an Elasticsearch ingest pipeline being written beyond the caller's authorized Elasticsearch permissions.
- Record
BIT-kibana-2026-78593- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| affected, aliases, published | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2026-78593 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 4.3) in Elastic Kibana, published September 3, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.29%, the 21st percentile. Fixed in elk 8.19.21.