Medium severity · published Dec 18, 2025
CVE-2025-68422
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 bypass intended permission restrictions via a crafted HTTP request. This allows an attacker who lacks the live queries - read permission to successfully retrieve the list of live queries.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 13% 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 8.19.6; 9.0.0 through 9.1.6; 9.2.0 before 9.2.0 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68422
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68422
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-7-9-1-7-and-9-2-1-security-update-esa-2025-39/384187
More from Kibana
10.0
CVE-2019-7609
Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution
9.9
CVE-2025-25015
Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution
9.8
CVE-2025-25014
Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution
9.8
CVE-2024-12556
Kibana Prototype Pollution can lead to code injection
9.8
CVE-2018-17246
Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin