CVE-2025-68422

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 4.3 Medium

Status

Analyzed - security@elastic.co

Published

2025-12-18

Last modified

2025-12-19

Weaknesses

CWE-863

Affected products

• Kibana (Elastic)

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-7-9-1-7-and-9-2-1-security-update-esa-2025-39/384187