Medium severity · published Aug 25, 2026
CVE-2026-78581
Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Data Modification in Kibana
4.2
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
High
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 10% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kibana · Elastic
8.0.0 through 8.16.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78581
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-78581
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-16-3-8-17-2-security-update-esa-2026-51/387446
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