Insufficient Session Expiration in Kibana - CVE-2021-22136
Published: March 25, 2021
Vulnerability identifier: #VU51711
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22136
CWE-ID: CWE-613
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient session expiration issue, as xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. A remote non-authenticated attacker can obtain or guess session token and gain unauthorized access to session that belongs to another user.
Affected software
Kibana
How to mitigate CVE-2021-22136
Install updates from vendor's website.
Kibana - addressed in versions 6.8.15, 7.12.0