Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting kibana package, versions >=5.3.0 <5.3.3>=5.4.0 <5.4.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.12% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDnpm:kibana:20170605
  • published4 Jan 2018
  • disclosed5 Jun 2017
  • creditThomas Goytil

Introduced: 5 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-8440  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade kibana to versions 5.3.3, 5.4.1 or higher.

Overview

Kibana is an open source, browser-based analytics and search dashboard for Elasticsearch.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS).

Starting in version 5.3.0, Kibana had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Discover page that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.

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