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CVE-2018-20698

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.1 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-04-09 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-601

Description

The floragunn Search Guard plugin before 6.x-16 for Kibana allows URL injection for login redirects on the login page when basePath is set.

Affected products

• floragunn Search Guard: before 6.3.0-16 — fixed in 6.3.0-16

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: floragunn Search Guard 6.3.0-16. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/changelog-kibana-6.x-16
• https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-kibana-plugin/pull/140
• https://docs.search-guard.com/latest/changelog-kibana-6.x-16
• https://github.com/floragunncom/search-guard-kibana-plugin/pull/140

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