CERT-FR Warns of Multiple Elastic Vulnerabilities
CERT-FR advises patching Elasticsearch and Kibana for multiple vulnerabilities enabling privilege escalation, DoS, and data confidentiality breaches.
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What to check
- Applies to
- The 11 CVEs named below. Whether you run an affected version is not assessed: check the versions the source lists.
- Exploitation
- No exploitation in the wild and no public exploit is recorded for the CVEs named.
CERT-FR has issued an advisory covering multiple vulnerabilities discovered in Elastic products, specifically Elasticsearch and Kibana. The affected versions span Elasticsearch 8.19.x prior to 8.19.22, 9.4.x prior to 9.4.7, and 9.5.x prior to 9.5.4, as well as Kibana 9.5.x prior to 9.5.3, 9.x prior to 9.4.7, and versions prior to 8.19.22. These vulnerabilities collectively could allow an attacker to achieve privilege escalation, cause a remote denial of service, breach data confidentiality, compromise data integrity, or bypass security policies.
The advisory references eleven CVEs (CVE-2026-72662, CVE-2026-72668, CVE-2026-78582, CVE-2026-82294, CVE-2026-82300, CVE-2026-94396, CVE-2026-94397, CVE-2026-94398, CVE-2026-94399, CVE-2026-94400, and CVE-2026-94408) tied to a series of Elastic security bulletins (ESA-2026-85, ESA-2026-103, ESA-2026-139, ESA-2026-170, ESA-2026-176, ESA-2026-179 through ESA-2026-184) all published by Elastic on 25 September 2026. No specific exploitation in the wild is mentioned in this advisory; it functions as a standard vulnerability disclosure and patch notification.
Defenders running Elasticsearch or Kibana should consult the referenced Elastic security bulletins to identify which CVEs apply to their specific deployed versions and apply the corresponding patched releases (Elasticsearch 8.19.22/9.4.7/9.5.4 and Kibana 8.19.22/9.4.7/9.5.3 or later) as soon as possible, particularly given the privilege escalation and remote DoS impact categories.
Mentioned in this report
Source reporting: https://www.cert.ssi.gouv.fr/avis/CERTFR-2026-AVI-1228
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