Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to change a document's sharing type to "global," even though they do not have permission to do so, making it visible to everyone in the space via a crafted a HTTP request.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| elastic / kibana | 7.0.0 | 7.17.29.x |
| elastic / kibana | 8.0.0 | 8.19.8 |
| elastic / kibana | 9.0.0 | 9.1.8 |
| elastic / kibana | 9.2.0 | 9.2.2 |