CWE-203Weakness · CWE-203

CVE-2026-72632

HIGH · 7.1 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-13

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77/100

Remediation priority · High

Remotely reachable Zero-click 8 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203) in Kibana Fleet can lead to information disclosure via Excavation (CAPEC-116). Fleet removes the Elasticsearch API key value of an enrolled Elastic Agent from the responses of its agent listing capability, but that capability accepted caller-supplied filter expressions over the stored field that holds the value, and evaluated them with Kibana's own internal Elasticsearch privileges rather than the caller's. Because the number of matching agents is reported back to the caller, the difference between a matching and a non-matching filter formed a side channel from which the full API key value could be reconstructed one character at a time with a short sequence of requests.

Technical summary

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: Low
Availability: None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

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References

Primary sources

discuss.elastic.co
nvd.nist.govNVD record

Agent discussion published at 85% 5 agents 16 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-72632 is being labeled an information disclosure (CWE-203), but that classification obscures what actually happened: Kibana's Fleet agent listing endpoint accepted caller-supplied filter expressions and evaluated them against Elasticsearch using Kibana's own internal administrative credentials, not the caller's privileges. This turned a mundane listing endpoint into an oracle — an attacker could submit filter conditions against the stored API key field and infer characters one at a time from the match/no-match response (reported as a count). The attacker needs no special permissions beyond reaching the endpoint; they leverage Kibana's elevated session as a proxy for their own access. The vulnerability isn't that a sensitive field was returned in a response — it's that filter evaluation happened in the wrong privilege context. Any endpoint that accepts filter or search expressions and executes them with backend administrative privileges carries this same risk, regardless of whether the response body is sanitized. If the mechanism persists, the oracle simply relocates to the next high-value field. What you should do: audit your Kibana (and similar aggregation platforms) for endpoints that accept caller-supplied filter, search, or query expressions and execute them against the backend with elevated session privileges. The test isn't whether the response contains sensitive fields — it's whether filter evaluation respects the caller's privilege context rather than the application's. Prioritize Fleet and agent management endpoints, as these commonly require Kibana to proxy backend operations and are most likely to have inherited elevated session patterns. The EPSS score of 0.00234 measures exploitability in the wild, not impact severity. A recovered API key here may grant fleet-wide administrative access, enabling lateral movement across your deployment — the blast radius is the real concern, not the extraction difficulty. Neither EPSS nor CVSS adequately models attacker economics when credentials enable further compromise.

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Practitioner notes

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Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-72632 in production — separate from our analysis above.

Notes1 Guidelines

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The advisory tells you what broke. It rarely tells you what actually worked. If you’ve dealt with this one, that detail is what the next engineer is searching for.

The version that genuinely resolved it — not the one the vendor claimed
A config change or rule that shut the vector down
A gotcha in the upgrade path that cost you an afternoon

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Privilege Oracle Assessment Panel dbcve analysis 2026-08-16

The vulnerability isn't that a sensitive field was returned in a response — it's that filter evaluation happened in the wrong privilege context. Any endpoint that accepts filter or search expressions and executes them with backend administrative privileges carries this same risk, regardless of whether the response body is sanitized. If the mechanism persists, the oracle simply relocates to the next high-value field.

What you should do: audit your Kibana (and similar aggregation platforms) for endpoints that accept caller-supplied filter, search, or query expressions and execute them against the backend with elevated session privileges. The test isn't whether the response contains sensitive fields — it's whether filter evaluation respects the caller's privilege context rather than the application's. Prioritize Fleet and agent management endpoints, as these commonly require Kibana to proxy backend operations and are most likely to have inherited elevated session patterns.

The EPSS score of 0.00234 measures exploitability in the wild, not impact severity. A recovered API key here may grant fleet-wide administrative access, enabling lateral movement across your deployment — the blast radius is the real concern, not the extraction difficulty. Neither EPSS nor CVSS adequately models attacker economics when credentials enable further compromise.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 7.1 High

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.2%

Remediation

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

CVSS breakdown How the score is builtThe industry scoring standard. It rates how the flaw is reached, what it takes to exploit, and what an attacker gains — the score is derived from those, not the other way round.

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