[role="xpack"]
[[security-api-delete-privilege]]
=== Delete application privileges API
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<titleabbrev>Delete application privileges</titleabbrev>
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Removes 
{stack-ov}/security-privileges.html#application-privileges[application privileges].

==== Request

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

//==== Description

==== Path Parameters

`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.

// ==== Request Body

==== Authorization

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

==== Examples

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

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

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

[source,js]
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{
  "myapp": {
    "read": {
      "found" : true
    }
  }
}
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// TESTRESPONSE