CVE-2026-72677

high

Assigned by CNA: elastic

Published 2026-08-13 · Modified 2026-08-13

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CVSS v3

7.3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.3

Description

Relative Path Traversal (CWE-23) in Kibana can lead to the unauthorized deletion of Kibana resources via Relative Path Traversal (CAPEC-139). Kibana Fleet accepted a user-supplied identifier for a Fleet Server host configuration without rejecting relative traversal sequences. The identifier is stored as provided and is later incorporated into the request that Kibana issues when that configuration is removed.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

82%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-17-9-3-6-9-4-3-security-update-esa-2026-94/389512

CWEs

CWE-23

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.