File inclusion in Kibana - CVE-2018-17246

 

File inclusion in Kibana - CVE-2018-17246

Published: December 19, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU16603
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17246
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Adjecent network
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Elastic Stack
Affected software:
Kibana

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the target system.

The weakness exists due to an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An adjacent attacker with access to the Kibana Console API can send a specially crafted request and execute arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process to execute javascript code on the host system.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-17246

The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 6.4.3 and 5.6.13.

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