# CVE-2026-72630: Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Fleet Leading to Privilege Escalation

> CVE-2026-72630: Incorrect Authorization in Kibana Fleet Leading to Privilege Escalation. CVSS 7.1 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-72630
Last updated: 2026-09-02T18:49:46Z

- Published: 2026-08-13 19:13 UTC · Updated: 2026-09-02 18:49 UTC · Assigner: elastic
- CVSS: 7.1 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.31%, 23th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-863

## Description

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). Fleet restricts some callers to managing integration policies for one specific integration. When an existing integration policy was updated, that restriction was evaluated against the integration recorded on the stored policy rather than against the replacement integration supplied with the update. An authenticated user holding only the Elastic Defend endpoint policy management privilege was therefore able to convert an endpoint policy they administer into a policy for a different integration, and to supply that integration's configuration at the same time.

## 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-2026-72630)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-72630)
- [https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5-9-5-1-security-update-esa-2026-127/389531](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-20-9-4-5-9-5-1-security-update-esa-2026-127/389531)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-72630 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-72630.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-72630 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:17:08.173Z