Relative Path Traversal Affecting kibana package, versions >=8.0.0 <8.19.17>=9.0.0 <9.3.6>=9.4.0 <9.4.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (20th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-KIBANA-19006176
  • published20 Aug 2026
  • disclosed13 Aug 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 Aug 2026

NewCVE-2026-72677  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-23  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kibana to version 8.19.17, 9.3.6, 9.4.3 or higher.

Overview

kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Relative Path Traversal in the process that handles user-supplied identifiers for Fleet Server host configurations, which fails to reject relative traversal sequences. An attacker can delete unauthorized users and other resources by supplying crafted input containing relative path traversal sequences.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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