Vulnerability · Published May 13, 2021 · Assigned by elastic
CVE-2021-22136
Low 3.5
In plain English
A low-severity security flaw in Kibana from Elastic. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 21% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)3.5Low
Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 79.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background polling activities unintentionally extending authenticated users sessions, preventing a user session from timing out.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-613