Unrated severityOSV Advisory· Published Dec 18, 2025· Updated Dec 19, 2025

Kibana Improper Authorization

CVE-2025-68422

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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Affected products

Elastic/KibanaOSV
Range: 7.0-known-good, deploy@1693594780, deploy@1693609987, …
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: < 8.19.7
- (no CPE)range: < 8.19.7

Patches

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References

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

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