CVE-2022-23711

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2022-04-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

A vulnerability in Kibana could expose sensitive information related to Elastic Stack monitoring in the Kibana page source. Elastic Stack monitoring features provide a way to keep a pulse on the health and performance of your Elasticsearch cluster. Authentication with a vulnerable Kibana instance is not required to view the exposed information. The Elastic Stack monitoring exposure only impacts users that have set any of the optional monitoring.ui.elasticsearch.* settings in order to configure Kibana as a remote UI for Elastic Stack Monitoring. The same vulnerability in Kibana could expose other non-sensitive application-internal information in the page source.

Affected products

Kibana: from 7.2.1 before 7.17.3; from 8.0.0 before 8.1.3 — fixed in 7.17.3, 8.1.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Kibana 7.17.3, 8.1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

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