[role="xpack"]
[[security-api-delete-privilege]]
=== Delete application privileges API
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<titleabbrev>Delete application privileges</titleabbrev>
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Removes <<application-privileges,application privileges>>.

[[security-api-delete-privilege-request]]
==== {api-request-title}

`DELETE /_security/privilege/<application>/<privilege>`

[[security-api-delete-privilege-prereqs]]
==== {api-prereq-title}

To use this API, you must have either:

- the `manage_security` cluster privilege (or a greater privilege such as `all`); _or_
- the _"Manage Application Privileges"_ global privilege for the application being referenced
  in the request

[[security-api-delete-privilege-path-params]]
==== {api-path-parms-title}

`application`::
  (Required, string) The name of the application. Application privileges are
  always associated with exactly one application.

`privilege`::
  (Required, string) The name of the privilege.

[[security-api-delete-privilege-example]]
==== {api-examples-title}

The following example deletes the `read` application privilege from the
`myapp` application:

[source,console]
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DELETE /_security/privilege/myapp/read
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// TEST[setup:app0102_privileges]

If the privilege is successfully deleted, the request returns `{"found": true}`.
Otherwise, `found` is set to false.

[source,console-result]
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{
  "myapp": {
    "read": {
      "found" : true
    }
  }
}
--------------------------------------------------

