Medium severity4.3OSV Advisory· Published Dec 18, 2025· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2025-68386

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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Affected products

Elastic/KibanaOSV3 versions
v9.2.0, v9.2.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: v9.2.0, v9.2.1
- cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*range: >=7.0.0,<=7.17.29
- (no CPE)
osv-coords5 versions
pkg:apk/chainguard/kibana-8.17-bitnami pkg:apk/chainguard/kibana-8.18-bitnami pkg:apk/chainguard/kibana-8.19-bitnami pkg:bitnami/elk pkg:bitnami/kibana
< 8.17.10-r11+ 4 more
- (no CPE)range: < 8.17.10-r11
- (no CPE)range: < 8.18.8-r10
- (no CPE)range: < 8.19.11-r0
- (no CPE)range: < 8.19.8
- (no CPE)range: < 8.19.8

Patches

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References

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

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