CVE-2019-7610

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2019-03-25 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Kibana versions before 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the security audit logger. If a Kibana instance has the setting xpack.security.audit.enabled set to true, an attacker 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

How to fix

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

References

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://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

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