QID 375603

Date Published: 2021-06-07

QID 375603: Elastic Kibana Open Redirect Vulnerability (ESA-2021-13)

Kibana is an open source data visualization plugin for Elasticsearch. It provides visualization capabilities on top of the content indexed on an Elasticsearch cluster. Users can create bar, line and scatter plots, or pie charts and maps on top of large volumes of data.

CVE-2021-22141 : A Open Redirect Vulnerability was found in the Kibana versions before 7.13.0 and 6.8.16.

Affected Version:
All versions of Kibana before 7.13.0 and 6.8.16 are affected by this flaw

QID Detection Logic:(Authenticated)
This authenticated QID checks for Kibana version by running "/usr/share/kibana/bin/kibana --version" command.

QID Detection Logic:(Unauthenticated)
This QID sends a GET request to find if the target is running a vulnerable version of kibana.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to redirect a logged in user when visits a maliciously crafted URL to arbitrary website.

  • CVSS V3 rated as High - 7.6 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • Solution
    Vendor has released fix to this vulnerability.

    Customers are advised to refer to ESA-2021-13 for more information.

    Vendor References

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    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    ESA-2021-13 URL Logo www.elastic.co/community/security