#VU16834 Information disclosure in Kibana - CVE-2018-17244
Published: January 8, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU16834
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17244
CWE-ID: CWE-200
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Kibana
Kibana
Software vendor:
Elastic Stack
Elastic Stack
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.
The weakness exists due to an error when request headers are applied to requests using Active Directory, LDAP, Native, or File realms. A remote attacker can obtain potentially sensitive information if the same username is being authenticated concurrently; when used with run as, this can result in the request running as the incorrect user.
The weakness exists due to an error when request headers are applied to requests using Active Directory, LDAP, Native, or File realms. A remote attacker can obtain potentially sensitive information if the same username is being authenticated concurrently; when used with run as, this can result in the request running as the incorrect user.
Remediation
The vulnerability has been fixed in the versions 6.4.3 and 5.6.13.