Actively exploited · Published Mar 25, 2019 · Assigned by elastic

CVE-2019-7609

Critical 9.8 Exploited

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A critical-severity code injection in Kibana from Elastic. Attackers are actively exploiting it in the wild (listed by CISA on January 10, 2022). The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 95.3% (higher than 99.9% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: Metasploit, Nuclei, public proof-of-concept code. Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)9.8Critical

Exploit odds (30 days)95.3%top 0.1% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildYesCISA KEV since Jan 10, 2022

Attack tooling3Metasploit, Nuclei, Public PoC

CISA guidance

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Federal agencies must remediate by Jul 10, 2022.

Official description

Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. An attacker with access to the Timelion application could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Elastic	Kibana	before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1

Weakness: CWE-94 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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CISA guidance

Official description

Affected products (as reported)

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