SARA / Free Tools / KEV / CVE-2019-7609

CVE-2019-7609 on CISA KEV

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 ar

CISA KEV — Actively Exploited

Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution

Vendor / Product
— / Elastic / Kibana
Added to KEV
2022-01-10
BOD 22-01 due
2022-07-10
Ransomware use
Unknown
CVSS / EPSS
· EPSS 94.43%

01What CISA says about this vulnerability

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.

02Required action — verbatim from CISA

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

03Notes & references

04SARA's analyst layer — why this matters

This vulnerability is currently on the CISA KEV list, which CISA only adds CVEs to when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. For federal civilian agencies, BOD 22-01 requires remediation by the due date above. For everyone else, KEV is the strongest "patch immediately" signal you can get from public threat intel.

05Affected products (summary)

VendorProductVersions
ElasticKibanabefore 5.6.15 and 6.6.1

06Detection

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