CVE-2025-68386

MEDIUM

Kibana 7.0.0-7.17.28 - Authenticated Privilege Escalation via Document Sharing Type Manipulation

Title source: llm

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.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-8-9-1-8-and-9-2-2-security-update-esa-2025-38/384186

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3

EPSS 0.0002

EPSS Percentile 6.5%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE

CWE-863

Status published

Products (1)

elastic/kibana 7.0.0 - 7.17.29

Published Dec 18, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026