Code Injection in Kibana - CVE-2019-7610
Published: March 27, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU18083
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7610
CWE-ID: CWE-94
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 execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to improper input validation in the security audit logger, if the setting xpack.security.audit.enabled set to true. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request and execute arbitrary javascript code on the target system with privileges of the Kibana process on the host system.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-7610
Install updates from vendor's website.