The state that Kibana stores for an Observability Onboarding flow is not bound to the user who created the flow, and the routes that read and update that state do not verify ownership. An authenticated user who holds only generic read access to the space can therefore discover the onboarding flows of other users, read their onboarding state, and write arbitrary progress data into them. A tampered flow can also cause the owner's onboarding view to fail with a server error.
History

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Metrics ssvc

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


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

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Description The state that Kibana stores for an Observability Onboarding flow is not bound to the user who created the flow, and the routes that read and update that state do not verify ownership. An authenticated user who holds only generic read access to the space can therefore discover the onboarding flows of other users, read their onboarding state, and write arbitrary progress data into them. A tampered flow can also cause the owner's onboarding view to fail with a server error.
Title Missing Authorization in Kibana Leading to Cross-User Information Disclosure and Data Tampering
Weaknesses CWE-862
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: elastic

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:33:30.914Z

Reserved: 2026-08-10T11:17:49.704Z

Link: CVE-2026-72669

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T20:33:27.325Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-13T20:17:27.403

Modified: 2026-08-13T21:18:11.300

Link: CVE-2026-72669

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T21:15:03Z