Critical severity · published Aug 13, 2026
CVE-2026-72676
Improper Control of Generation of Code in Fleet Server Leading to Code Injection
9.1
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') (CWE-94) in Fleet Server can lead to the execution of attacker-supplied script content via Code Injection (CAPEC-242). Kibana accepted an identifier for an output configuration without restricting it to safe characters. That identifier is later placed into a server-side script that Fleet Server builds as part of routine agent policy processing, so script syntax embedded in the identifier became part of the script that was executed rather than being treated as data.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 46% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FS
Fleet Server · Elastic
8.5.0 through 8.19.19; 9.0.0 through 9.4.4; 9.5.0 · source: vendor
KI
Kibana · Elastic
8.5.0 before 8.19.20; 9.0.0 before 9.4.5; 9.5.0 · source: NVD
Affected product
FS
Fleet Server
Elastic
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