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CVE-2025-68422

Kibana Improper Authorization

Published: Dec 18, 2025Updated: Dec 23, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD BDUCWE-863
4.3MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 90.4%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
OpenVAS

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.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:LI:NA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:NIntegrity
None
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-863

Affected Products

Elastic
commercial·USaka elasticsearch co., elastic.co
Kibana
Databases
Elastic NV
commercial·USaka elastic
KibanaOn-premWeb App
Enterprise Software / itsm-monitoring
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Exploitability

Official Patch Available
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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
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References

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