{"id":"CVE-2026-78599","summary":"Stored Path Traversal in Kibana Leading to Unauthorized Deletion of Internal Resources","details":"Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22) in the Kibana Fleet feature can lead to the unauthorized deletion of internal resources via Path Traversal (CAPEC-126). A low-privileged user holding Fleet write access could cause a subsequent administrative delete action to act on unintended internal resources. Exploitation requires an administrator to interact with the affected Fleet interface.","modified":"2026-09-05T03:49:18.823509856Z","published":"2026-09-02T14:43:17.212Z","database_specific":{"cwe_ids":["CWE-22"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/78xxx/CVE-2026-78599.json","unresolved_ranges":[{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"8.0.0"},{"last_affected":"8.19.17"},{"introduced":"9.0.0"},{"last_affected":"9.4.2"}],"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD"}],"cna_assigner":"elastic"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-18-9-4-3-security-update-esa-2026-157/390112"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/78xxx/CVE-2026-78599.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78599"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch","events":[{"introduced":"1b6a7ece17463df5ff54a3e1302d825889aa1161"},{"fixed":"e8ac685d1710aae2c9fc9ca61e2956ab9424d5f8"},{"introduced":"112859b85d50de2a7e63f73c8fc70b99eea24291"},{"fixed":"45f6a06b1b441b41fe711059b8720013173e7c89"}],"database_specific":{"cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"8.0.0"},{"fixed":"8.19.18"},{"introduced":"9.0.0"},{"fixed":"9.4.3"}],"source":"CPE_RANGE"}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-78599.json"}},{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/elastic/kibana","events":[{"introduced":"57ca5e139a33dd2eed927ce98d8231a1f217cd15"},{"fixed":"8b2d519956d8e256d1da1a46185994fee710c3b8"},{"introduced":"504d6bfa94cca17fabb76e06152c30c4f0c3efdd"},{"fixed":"9e9848d35f973e1f40f65d79760037228c54b7ab"}],"database_specific":{"source":"CPE_RANGE","cpe":"cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*","extracted_events":[{"introduced":"8.0.0"},{"fixed":"8.19.18"},{"introduced":"9.0.0"},{"fixed":"9.4.3"}]}}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-78599.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}