Medium severity · published Dec 18, 2025
CVE-2025-68386
Kibana Improper Authorization
4.3
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to change a document's sharing type to "global," even though they do not have permission to do so, making it visible to everyone in the space via a crafted a HTTP request.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 9% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kibana · Elastic
7.0.0 through 7.17.29; 8.0.0 through 8.19.7; 9.0.0 through 9.1.7; 9.2.0 through 9.2.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68386
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68386
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-38/384186
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