PT-2018-13966 · Elastic · Kibana

Nethanel Coppenhagen · Published 2018-12-20 · Updated 2025-07-18 · CVE-2018-17246

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Kibana versions prior to 6.4.3 Kibana versions prior to 5.6.13

Description The issue is related to an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request to execute javascript code, potentially leading to the execution of arbitrary commands with the permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Recommendations For versions prior to 6.4.3, update to version 6.4.3 or later. For versions prior to 5.6.13, update to version 5.6.13 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-829

CWE-73

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-17246

Affected Products

Kibana

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/mpgn/CVE-2018-17246 · Exploit
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2018:3743 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-17246 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-17246 · Security Note
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-4-3-and-5-6-13-security-update/155594 · Vendor Advisory
• https://elastic.co/community/security · Vendor Advisory
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/106285 · Note