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CVE-2021-22142: Kibana Reporting vulnerabilities

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• 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: 2023-11-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1104

Description

Kibana contains an embedded version of the Chromium browser that the Reporting feature uses to generate the downloadable reports. If a user with permissions to generate reports is able to render arbitrary HTML with this browser, they may be able to leverage known Chromium vulnerabilities to conduct further attacks. Kibana contains a number of protections to prevent this browser from rendering arbitrary content.

Affected products

• Kibana: from 7.0.0 before 7.13.0 — fixed in 7.13.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 7.13.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-13-0-and-6-8-16-security-update/273964/1
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security
• https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-13-0-and-6-8-16-security-update/273964/1
• https://www.elastic.co/community/security

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