AIKIDO-2026-111811
kibana is vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization
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Medium Risk
This Affects:
kibanaTL;DR
The Kibana machine learning feature incorrectly authorizes authenticated callers, allowing them to invoke ML functionality outside their granted privileges. Those callers can start ML work that consumes cluster CPU, memory, or storage they should not be able to reach. The fix enforces the intended authorization checks on the machine learning APIs.
Who does this affect?
You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and machine learning features are enabled.
Background info
kibana is vulnerable to Incorrect Authorization in versions 8.0.0 - 8.19.20, 9.0.0 - 9.4.5 and 9.5.0 - 9.5.1.
How to fix this
Upgrade the kibana library to the patch version.
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