QID 375610

Date Published: 2021-06-09

QID 375610: Kibana Chromium Browser Based Vulnerabilities (ESA-2021-12)

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-2021-22142: Kibana contains an embedded version of the Chromium browser that the Reporting feature uses to generate the downloadable reports. If a user with permissions to generate reports is able to render arbitrary HTML with this browser, they may be able to leverage known Chromium vulnerabilities to conduct further attacks.

Affected Version:
All versions of Kibana before 7.13.0 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 leverage known Chromium vulnerabilities to conduct further attacks.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Critical - 8.8 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as High - 7.5 severity.
  • Solution
    Vendor has released fix to this vulnerability.

    Customers are advised to refer to ESA-2021-12 for more information.

    Vendor References

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    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    ESA-2021-12 URL Logo www.elastic.co/community/security

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