Name: CVE-2016-1000219: Improper Authorization
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-06-16T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-1000219, CWE-285, CVSS 7.5, EPSS 0.00678

Kibana before 4.5.4 and 4.1.11 when a custom output is configured for logging in, cookies and authorization headers could be written to the log files. This information could be used to hijack sessions of other users when using Kibana behind some form of authentication such as Shield.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 7.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Elastic Kibana	—	Upgrade Elastic Kibana to the latest version	Sep 3, 2025	Jun 16, 2017
Redhat Openshift	—	Upgrade kibanaUpgrade openshift-elasticsearch-plugin	Aug 10, 2026	Aug 3, 2016

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CVSS Details

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