Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU80756

Input validation error in Kibana - CVE-2022-38778

Published: September 13, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU80756

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-38778

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

Kibana
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)

How to mitigate CVE-2022-38778

Install updates from vendor's website.

Kibana - addressed in versions 7.17.9, 8.6.1
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S) - update to 1.10.15.0

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