CVE-2026-72672
HighCVSS 7.7Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk16th percentile - higher than 16% of all known CVEs
Summary
The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the requesting user's account. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, not the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges. An authenticated user with Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to Elastic Defend event indices can retrieve field values, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, and other sensitive operational detail.
Risk Assessment
An attacker could access sensitive operational data from protected hosts, potentially leading to credential theft and privilege escalation.
Recommendation
Apply security patches provided by Elastic for Kibana.
Original NVD description (English source)
The Elastic Security capability that suggests existing field values while a user authors endpoint policy artifacts queries Elastic Defend event data with Kibana's internal Elasticsearch account instead of the account of the requesting user. Only Kibana feature privileges are verified, and the caller's Elasticsearch index privileges are not. An authenticated user who holds Elastic Security feature privileges but no read access to the Elastic Defend event indices can therefore retrieve field values from that data, including process command line arguments, which commonly contain tokens, credentials, connection strings, and other sensitive operational detail from protected hosts.