PT-2017-18332 · Elastic · Kibana

Thomas Gøytil · Published 2017-06-05 · Updated 2020-08-14 · CVE-2017-8440

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

6.1

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kibana versions 5.3.0 and later

Description The issue is related to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Discover page. This could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.

Recommendations For versions 5.3.0 and later, update to a version that contains a fix for this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

XSS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-79

Related Identifiers

CVE-2017-8440

Affected Products

Kibana

References · 6

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-security-updates/87952 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8440 · Vendor Advisory
• https://elastic.co/blog/kibana-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-released · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-8440 · Security Note
• https://elastic.co/community/security · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8440 · Note