EIQ-2026-0012#

ID

EIQ-2026-0012

CVE

Multiple (see assessment)

Description

Cumulative Kibana vulnerabilities

Date

30 August 2026

Severity

1 - LOW

Status

Assessment

This advisory consolidates 23 Kibana security advisories published by Elastic in August 2026, covering Kibana versions up to and including 8.19.19. These vulnerabilities have a low risk of exploitation. EclecticIQ Intelligence Center does not exercise the affected features in normal operations. Kibana is only accessible by authenticated IC users with at least modify kibana permissions, and external access to port 5601 is not available by default.

The list of Kibana advisories by Elastic covered by this EIQ advisory is below:

Mitigation

Upgrade to IC 3.8.1 or newer, when available. IC 3.8.1 ships with Kibana 9.4.5.

Kibana is only accessible by authenticated EclecticIQ Intelligence Center users who have at least modify kibana permissions. All access to Kibana is mediated through the IC authentication flow.

External access to Kibana’s REST API or to port 5601 is not available by default in Intelligence Center deployments.

Administrators should restrict direct access to the Kibana REST API to only trusted hosts and services. Do not expose Kibana (port 5601) to end users or untrusted networks.

To further harden your Kibana instance, you can disable the affected Kibana features by adding the following to /etc/eclecticiq-kibana/kibana.yml and then restarting the Kibana service:

# ESA-2026-99
vis_type_vega.enabled: false
# ESA-2026-98
xpack.observabilityLogsExplorer.enabled: false
# ESA-2026-90
xpack.uptime.enabled: false
# ESA-2026-100
vis_type_timelion.enabled: false
# ESA-2026-101
xpack.securitySolution.enabled: false
# ESA-2026-104
vis_type_timeseries.enabled: false
# ESA-2026-63
xpack.canvas.enabled: false

To limit the impact of resource consumption attacks on Kibana, create a systemd memory limit drop-in at /etc/systemd/system/kibana.service.d/30-eclecticiq_memory_limit.conf on the Kibana node (usually the application node):

[Service]
MemoryHigh=2000M
MemoryMax=3000M

Affected versions

EIQ Intelligence Center 3.7.2 and older, or any instance using Kibana versions up to 8.19.19 (inclusive) or 9.x up to 9.4.4 (inclusive).

Notes

N/A