{"id":"CVE-2026-78601","aliases":["EUVD-2026-70054","GHSA-r3rh-pvj2-mrj8"],"status":"published","title":"Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Elasticsearch Index Data Exposure","description":"Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An authorization control was not applied to a Kibana Entity Store configuration operation, allowing an authenticated user with elevated Kibana privileges to indirectly cause a background task to read from Elasticsearch indices that user is not authorized to access. Derived entity data from those indices is then exposed through the entity store output.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":5.5,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N","level":"medium","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00349,"percentile":0.28865,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-862"],"published":"2026-09-02T14:43:07Z","modified":"2026-10-28T11:17:56Z","products":[{"vendor":"elastic","product":"kibana"}],"references":[{"url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-9-4-5-security-update-esa-2026-147/390107","tags":["Vendor Advisory","web"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78601","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r3rh-pvj2-mrj8"},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/78xxx/CVE-2026-78601.json","tags":["advisory"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-78601","title":"Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Elasticsearch Index Data Exposure","description":"Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). 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