Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting kibana package, versions >=7.8.0 <7.15.2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JS-KIBANA-5772122
  • published12 Jul 2023
  • disclosed24 May 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 May 2022

CVE-2021-37939  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-319  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kibana to version 7.15.2 or higher.

Overview

kibana is an open source (Apache Licensed), browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information. It was discovered that Kibana’s JIRA connector & IBM Resilient connector could be used to return HTTP response data on internal hosts, which may be intentionally hidden from public view. Using this vulnerability, a malicious user with the ability to create connectors, could utilize these connectors to view limited HTTP response data on hosts accessible to the cluster.

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