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CVE-2019-7609: Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: yes — in CISA KEV since 2022-01-10
• EPSS: 95.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2019-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-94

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

• Kibana: before 5.6.15; from 6.0.0 before 6.6.1 — fixed in 5.6.15, 6.6.1
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 3.11, 4.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 5.6.15, 6.6.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174569/Kibana-Timelion-Prototype-Pollution-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2860
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-6-1-and-5-6-15-security-update/169077
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174569/Kibana-Timelion-Prototype-Pollution-Remote-Code-Execution.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2860
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-6-1-and-5-6-15-security-update/169077
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2019-7609

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