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CVE-2017-8440

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-05 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

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.

Affected products

• Kibana: 5.3.0, 5.3.1, 5.3.2, 5.4.0

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-security-updates/87952
• https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-released
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-security-updates/87952
• https://www.elastic.co/blog/kibana-5-4-1-and-5-3-3-released
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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