QID 376498

Date Published: 2022-04-04

QID 376498: Kibana Missing Authorization Vulnerability (ESA-2022-03)

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.

Affected Version:
Versions 7.7.0 through 7.17.0, and 8.0.0

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.
Note: This QID is not checking for the mitigatigation

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities may affect confidentiality, integrity and availability of the targeted user.

  • CVSS V3 rated as Medium - 4.3 severity.
  • CVSS V2 rated as Medium - 4 severity.
  • Solution
    Vendor has released fix to this vulnerability.

    Customers are advised to refer to ESA-2022-03

    CVEs related to QID 376498

    Software Advisories
    Advisory ID Software Component Link
    ESA-2022-03 URL Logo discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447