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Elastic Kibana: CVE-2019-7618: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Externally-Accessible File or Directory

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Oct 1, 2019
Added
Sep 3, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A local file disclosure flaw was found in Elastic Code versions 7.3.0, 7.3.1, and 7.3.2. If a malicious code repository is imported into Code it is possible to read arbitrary files from the local filesystem of the Kibana instance running Code with the permission of the Kibana system user.

Solution

elastic-kibana-upgrade-latest
Title
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