vulnerability

Elastic Kibana: CVE-2018-17246: External Control of File Name or Path

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Dec 20, 2018
Added
Sep 3, 2025
Modified
Sep 3, 2025

Description

Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Solution

elastic-kibana-upgrade-latest
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