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Publication date: 2025-12-18

Last updated on: 2025-12-23

Assigner: Elastic

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.

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Meta Information

Published

2025-12-18

Last Modified

2025-12-23

Generated

2026-07-06

AI Q&A

2025-12-19

EPSS Evaluated

2026-07-05

NVD

CVE-2025-68386

Affected Vendors & Products

Vendor	Product	Version / Range
elastic	kibana	From 7.0.0 (inc) to 7.17.29 (inc)
elastic	kibana	From 8.0.0 (inc) to 8.19.8 (exc)
elastic	kibana	From 9.0.0 (inc) to 9.1.8 (exc)
elastic	kibana	From 9.2.0 (inc) to 9.2.2 (exc)

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Exploitability

CWE

KEV

CWE ID	Description
CWE-863	The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check.

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Executive Summary

This vulnerability is an improper authorization issue in Kibana that allows an authenticated user to escalate their privileges by changing a document's sharing type to "global" without having the necessary permissions. This makes the document visible to everyone in the space through a specially crafted HTTP request.

Impact Analysis

The vulnerability can lead to unauthorized information disclosure by allowing users to make documents globally visible within a space, potentially exposing sensitive data to users who should not have access.

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