CVE-2026-72668 Kibana Agent Builder - Privilege Escalation

Kibana Agent Builder contains an unintended proxy (Confused Deputy) vulnerability caused by non-administrative users editing shared agents, letting attackers escalate privileges by causing privileged operations under higher-privileged identities, exploit requires non-administrative user access to shared agents.

CVSS base score 7.3 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Required
EPSS
0.18% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Privilege Escalation
Impact
Privilege Escalation
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Published
26 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-441

Vendor fix

Update to the latest version with the fix for this vulnerability.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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