Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') (CWE-441) in Kibana Agent Builder can lead to privilege escalation. A non-administrative user able to edit a shared agent could cause privileged operations to be carried out under the identity of a higher-privileged user who subsequently interacts with that agent. Where the same user can also author workflows, this can extend to full administrative control of Kibana and of the Elasticsearch cluster.
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| Description | Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') (CWE-441) in Kibana Agent Builder can lead to privilege escalation. A non-administrative user able to edit a shared agent could cause privileged operations to be carried out under the identity of a higher-privileged user who subsequently interacts with that agent. Where the same user can also author workflows, this can extend to full administrative control of Kibana and of the Elasticsearch cluster. | |
| Title | Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy') in Kibana Leading to Privilege Escalation | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-441 | |
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: elastic
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Updated: 2026-09-26T20:42:09.858Z
Reserved: 2026-08-10T11:17:49.704Z
Link: CVE-2026-72668
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-26T21:16:55.540
Modified: 2026-09-26T21:16:55.540
Link: CVE-2026-72668
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