Kibana 7.10.1 → 7.17.16

Vulnerabilities fixed by this upgrade

• 8.0 CVE-2026-49091 Improper Output Neutralization for Logs (CWE-117) in Kibana can lead to log injection via Log Injection-Tampering-Forging (CAPEC-93). An attacker can supply specially crafted input that is written…
• 6.6 CVE-2021-22142 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 ar…
• 3.1 CVE-2021-22151 It was discovered that Kibana was not validating a user supplied path, which would load .pbf files. Because of this, a malicious user could arbitrarily traverse the Kibana host to load internal fil…
• 6.1 CVE-2022-38779 An open redirect issue was discovered in Kibana that could lead to a user being redirected to an arbitrary website if they use a maliciously crafted Kibana URL.
• 6.5 CVE-2022-38778 A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process.
• 5.4 CVE-2021-37936 It was discovered that Kibana was not sanitizing document fields containing HTML snippets. Using this vulnerability, an attacker with the ability to write documents to an elasticsearch index could…
• 6.1 CVE-2021-22141 An open redirect flaw was found in Kibana versions before 7.13.0 and 6.8.16. If a logged in user visits a maliciously crafted URL, it could result in Kibana redirecting the user to an arbitrary web…
• 6.1 CVE-2022-23713 A cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Vega Charts Kibana integration which could allow arbitrary JavaScript to be executed in a victim’s browser.
• 5.3 CVE-2022-23711 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 he…
• 4.3 CVE-2022-23709 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…
• 5.4 CVE-2022-23707 An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated user with permissions to create index patterns can inject malicious javascript into the index pat…
• 4.3 CVE-2021-37938 It was discovered that on Windows operating systems specifically, Kibana was not validating a user supplied path, which would load .pbf files. Because of this, a malicious user could arbitrarily tr…
• 2.7 CVE-2021-37939 It was discovered that Kibana’s JIRA connector & IBM Resilient connector could be used to return HTTP response data on internal hosts, which may be intentionally hidden from public view. Using this…
• 6.5 CVE-2021-22139 Kibana versions before 7.12.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability was found in the webhook actions due to a lack of timeout or a limit on the request size. An attacker with permissions to cre…
• 3.5 CVE-2021-22136 In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background p…

Breaking changes

None in the release notes.

Security changes

• security Fixes CVE-2023-46675: An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby sensitive information may be recorded in Kibana logs in the event of an error or in the event where debug level logging is enabled in Kibana. Elastic has… in 7.17.16
• security Fixes CVE-2026-49091: Improper Output Neutralization for Logs (CWE-117) in Kibana can lead to log injection via Log Injection-Tampering-Forging (CAPEC-93). An attacker can supply specially crafted input that is written… in 7.17.15
• security Fixes CVE-2022-38778: A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process. in 7.17.9
• security Fixes CVE-2022-38779: An open redirect issue was discovered in Kibana that could lead to a user being redirected to an arbitrary website if they use a maliciously crafted Kibana URL. in 7.17.9
• security Fixes CVE-2022-23713: A cross-site-scripting (XSS) vulnerability was discovered in the Vega Charts Kibana integration which could allow arbitrary JavaScript to be executed in a victim’s browser. in 7.17.5
• security Fixes CVE-2022-23711: 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 he… in 7.17.3
• security Fixes CVE-2022-23709: 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… in 7.17.1
• security Fixes CVE-2022-23707: An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated user with permissions to create index patterns can inject malicious javascript into the index pat… in 7.17.0
• security Fixes CVE-2021-37938: It was discovered that on Windows operating systems specifically, Kibana was not validating a user supplied path, which would load .pbf files. Because of this, a malicious user could arbitrarily tr… in 7.15.2
• security Fixes CVE-2021-37939: It was discovered that Kibana’s JIRA connector & IBM Resilient connector could be used to return HTTP response data on internal hosts, which may be intentionally hidden from public view. Using this… in 7.15.2
• security Fixes CVE-2021-22150: It was discovered that a user with Fleet admin permissions could upload a malicious package. Due to using an older version of the js-yaml library, this package would be loaded in an insecure manner… in 7.14.1
• security Fixes CVE-2021-37936: It was discovered that Kibana was not sanitizing document fields containing HTML snippets. Using this vulnerability, an attacker with the ability to write documents to an elasticsearch index could… in 7.14.1
• security Fixes CVE-2021-22142: 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 ar… in 7.13.0
• security Fixes CVE-2021-22141: An open redirect flaw was found in Kibana versions before 7.13.0 and 6.8.16. If a logged in user visits a maliciously crafted URL, it could result in Kibana redirecting the user to an arbitrary web… in 7.13.0
• security Fixes CVE-2021-22139: Kibana versions before 7.12.1 contain a denial of service vulnerability was found in the webhook actions due to a lack of timeout or a limit on the request size. An attacker with permissions to cre… in 7.12.1
• security Fixes CVE-2021-22136: In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background p… in 7.12.0

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