Vulnerability · Published Mar 5, 2025 · Assigned by elastic

CVE-2025-25015Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution

Critical 9.9

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 1.3% (higher than 71% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.9Critical
Exploit odds (30 days)1.3%top 29.2% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Prototype pollution in Kibana leads to arbitrary code execution via a crafted file upload and specifically crafted HTTP requests. In Kibana versions >= 8.15.0 and < 8.17.1, this is exploitable by users with the Viewer role. In Kibana versions 8.17.1 and 8.17.2 , this is only exploitable by users that have roles that contain all the following privileges: fleet-all, integrations-all, actions:execute-advanced-connectors

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Elastic Kibana 8.15.0 – before 8.16.68.17.0 – before 8.17.3

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

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