Information disclosure in Kibana - CVE-2018-17245
Published: January 8, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16833
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17245
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Elastic Stack
Affected software:
Kibana
Kibana
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.
The weakness exists due to a flaw when authorization credentials are used for generating PDF reports, Native, or File realms. A remote attacker can obtain potentially sensitive information if a report requests external resources plaintext credentials are included in the HTTP request that can be recovered by an external resource provider.
The weakness exists due to a flaw when authorization credentials are used for generating PDF reports, Native, or File realms. A remote attacker can obtain potentially sensitive information if a report requests external resources plaintext credentials are included in the HTTP request that can be recovered by an external resource provider.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-17245
The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 6.4.3 and 5.6.13.