Description
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key (CWE-639) in Kibana can lead to unauthorized data modification via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1). Under certain conditions, an authenticated user could reference another user's AI Assistant conversation identifier to access or modify a conversation they do not own. Successful exploitation requires knowledge of a hard-to-guess identifier.
Affected products
elastic: kibana
References1
- discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-16-3-8-17-2-security-update-esa-2… Vendor Advisory
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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4.2
MEDIUM
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 10 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-639
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