Vulnerability · Published May 6, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

CVE-2025-25014Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution

Critical 9.1

In plain English

A critical-severity prototype pollution 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 22.3% (higher than 98% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.1Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)22.3%top 2.3% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack tooling1Public PoC

Official description

A Prototype pollution vulnerability in Kibana leads to arbitrary code execution via crafted HTTP requests to machine learning and reporting endpoints.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Elastic Kibana 8.3.0 – before 8.17.68.18.0 – before 8.18.19.0.0 – before 9.0.1

Weakness: CWE-1321 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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