Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Leading to Disclosure of Elastic Defend Endpoint Event Data
The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the account of the requesting user. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, and the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges are not. An authenticated user who holds Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to the Elastic Defend event indices can therefore retrieve field values from that data, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, connection strings, and other sensitive operational detail from protected hosts.
Affected Versions:
- All versions from 9.1.0 up to and including 9.4.4
Affected Configurations:
- All configurations are affected.
Solutions and Mitigations:
The issue is resolved in versions 9.4.5.
For Users that Cannot Upgrade:
There are no workarounds for this vulnerability.
Indicators of Compromise (IOC)
No specific indicators of compromise have been identified for this vulnerability.
Elastic Cloud Serverless
Due to our continuous deployment and patching model, the vulnerability described in this security advisory was remediated in our Elastic Cloud Serverless offering before the public disclosure.
Severity: CVSSv3.1: High ( 7.7 ) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVE ID: CVE-2026-72672
Problem Type: CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization