Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Escalation (CAPEC-233). An integration policy may optionally declare extra data streams that the integration writes to, which Fleet adds to the Elasticsearch API key issued to Elastic Agents enrolled in the corresponding agent policy. The resulting key allows new documents to be inserted and index mappings to be extended for specific indices. The key does not allow reading, updating, or deleting existing documents
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Elastic
Elastic kibana
Vendors & Products Elastic
Elastic kibana

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Description Improper Privilege Management (CWE-269) in Kibana Fleet can lead to privilege escalation via Privilege Escalation (CAPEC-233). An integration policy may optionally declare extra data streams that the integration writes to, which Fleet adds to the Elasticsearch API key issued to Elastic Agents enrolled in the corresponding agent policy. The resulting key allows new documents to be inserted and index mappings to be extended for specific indices. The key does not allow reading, updating, or deleting existing documents
Title Improper Privilege Management in Kibana Fleet Leading to Over-Scoped Elastic Agent API Keys
Weaknesses CWE-269
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:27:12.944Z

Reserved: 2026-08-10T11:17:29.887Z

Link: CVE-2026-72631

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:27:09.383Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T20:17:23.937

Modified: 2026-08-13T21:18:08.943

Link: CVE-2026-72631

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T21:00:06Z