Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) in Kibana - CVE-2019-7616
Published: August 9, 2019
Vulnerability identifier: #VU20032
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2019-7616
CWE-ID: CWE-918
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Elastic Stack
Affected software:
Kibana
Kibana
Detailed vulnerability description
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote privileged attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input within the graphite integration for Timelion visualizer. A remote authenticated administrator can set the timelion:graphite.url configuration option to an arbitrary URL and perform SSRF attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2019-7616
Install updates from vendor's website.