Elastic Kibana up to 8.19.13/9.2.7/9.3.2 Internal API Endpoint authorization

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Elastic Kibana up to 8.19.13/9.2.7/9.3.2. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Internal API Endpoint. The manipulation leads to authorization. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-33461. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Elastic Kibana up to 8.19.13/9.2.7/9.3.2 and classified as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Internal API Endpoint. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a authorization vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-863. The product performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). A user with limited Fleet privileges can exploit an internal API endpoint to retrieve sensitive configuration data, including private keys and authentication tokens, that should only be accessible to users with higher-level settings privileges. The endpoint composes its response by fetching full configuration objects and returning them directly, bypassing the authorization checks enforced by the dedicated settings APIs.

It is possible to read the advisory at discuss.elastic.co. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-33461 since 03/20/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/08/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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Vendor

• Elastic

Name

• Kibana

Version

• 8.19.0
• 8.19.1
• 8.19.2
• 8.19.3
• 8.19.4
• 8.19.5
• 8.19.6
• 8.19.7
• 8.19.8
• 8.19.9
• 8.19.10
• 8.19.11
• 8.19.12
• 8.19.13
• 9.2.0
• 9.2.1
• 9.2.2
• 9.2.3
• 9.2.4
• 9.2.5
• 9.2.6
• 9.2.7
• 9.3.0
• 9.3.1
• 9.3.2

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• open-source

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