What is CVE-2025-68422?

CVE-2025-68422 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Incorrect Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-12-18.

How severe is CVE-2025-68422?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Auth bypass in Elastic Kibana

CVE-2025-68422

Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to bypass intended permission restrictions via a crafted HTTP request. This allows an attacker who lacks the live queries - read permission to successfully retrieve the list of live queries.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

Published 2025-12-18 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (12.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 12th percentile — 12.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Elastic Kibana — versions 7.0.0, 8.0.0, 9.0.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-863 — Incorrect Authorization

References

discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-7-9-1-7-and-9-2-1-security-update-esa-2025-39/… (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-68422?: CVE-2025-68422 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, classified under Incorrect Authorization. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2025-12-18.
How severe is CVE-2025-68422?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.