# CVE-2025-68422: Kibana Improper Authorization

> CVE-2025-68422: Kibana Improper Authorization. CVSS 4.3 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-68422
Last updated: 2026-06-17T09:59:04Z

- Published: 2025-12-18 22:32 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 09:59 UTC · Assigner: elastic
- CVSS: 4.3 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
- EPSS: 0.23%, 13th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-863

## 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.

## Affected vendors and products

- Elastic: Kibana

## Tracked companies

- [Elastic Cloud](https://rewindex.com/company/elastic-cloud.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-68422)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-68422)
- [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-7-9-1-7-and-9-2-1-security-update-esa-2025-39/384187](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-7-9-1-7-and-9-2-1-security-update-esa-2025-39/384187)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-68422 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-68422.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-68422 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:09:49.166Z