CVE-2026-72654

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-09-01. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 3 sources updated this week
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) in the Kibana machine learning feature can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An operation available to users holding only read access to the machine learning feature was performed with an internal service identity rather than the identity of the requesting user. Such a user could therefore receive data from Elasticsearch indices they are not authorized to read. No Elasticsearch cluster or index privileges are required.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5(high)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity65% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
31%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 1, 2026

Last Modified

September 2, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Sep 1, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

Kibana 8.19.21, 9.4.6, 9.5.2 Security Update (ESA-2026-135) - Security Announcements - Discuss the Elastic Stack

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-8-19-21-9-4-6-9-5-2-security-update-esa-2026-135/390091

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72654(1)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 17× in last 7d / 46× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

  1. 2026-09-19 05:18 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-19 05:18 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-18 04:43 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-18 04:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-17 04:08 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-17 04:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-16 03:32 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-16 03:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  13. 2026-09-15 02:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-14 02:20 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-14 02:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-13 01:45 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-13 01:45 UTCGHSA enrichment
  18. 2026-09-12 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  19. 2026-09-12 01:09 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-12 01:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  21. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  22. 2026-09-11 00:33 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-11 00:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-10 09:35 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-09-09 23:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-09-08 23:22 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-09-08 23:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-09-07 22:11 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-09-07 22:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-06 21:36 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-06 21:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-06 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-05 20:57 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-05 20:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-04 20:21 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-04 20:21 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-04 05:07 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-03 19:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-02 19:02 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-09-02 19:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-02 14:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  18. 2026-09-01 20:20 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-09-01 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-01 19:25 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-01 19:22 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72654?
CVE-2026-72654 is a medium vulnerability published on September 1, 2026. Execution with Unnecessary Privileges (CWE-250) in the Kibana machine learning feature can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An operation available to users holding only read access to the machine learning feature was performed with an internal service identity rather…
When was CVE-2026-72654 disclosed?
CVE-2026-72654 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 1, 2026, with the most recent update on September 2, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-72654 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72654 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 69.3% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72654?
CVE-2026-72654 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72654?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-72654, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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