CVE-2022-23709

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

A flaw was discovered in Kibana in which users with Read access to the Uptime feature could modify alerting rules. A user with this privilege would be able to create new alerting rules or overwrite existing ones. However, any new or modified rules would not be enabled, and a user with this privilege could not modify alerting connectors. This effectively means that Read users could disable existing alerting rules.

Affected products

Kibana: from 7.7.0 before 7.17.1; 8.0.0 — fixed in 7.17.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 7.17.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-7-17-1-security-update/298447

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