Kibana 7.17.3 → 7.17.28

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…
• 4.3 CVE-2025-25016 Unrestricted file upload in Kibana allows an authenticated attacker to compromise software integrity by uploading a crafted malicious file due to insufficient server-side validation.
• 6.5 CVE-2024-52974 An issue has been identified where a specially crafted request sent to an Observability API could cause the kibana server to crash. A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read permi…
• 6.5 CVE-2024-43708 An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted payload to a number of inputs in Kibana UI. This can be carried out by users with…
• 6.5 CVE-2024-52972 An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/metrics/snapshot. This can be carried out by users with read acce…
• 6.5 CVE-2024-52973 An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/log_entries/summary. This can be carried out by users with read a…
• 9.1 CVE-2024-37287 A flaw allowing arbitrary code execution was discovered in Kibana. An attacker with access to ML and Alerting connector features, as well as write access to internal ML indices can trigger a protot…
• 6.5 CVE-2024-37281 An issue was discovered in Kibana where a user with Viewer role could cause a Kibana instance to crash by sending a large number of maliciously crafted requests to a specific endpoint.
• 4.9 CVE-2024-23443 A high-privileged user, allowed to create custom osquery packs 17 could affect the availability of Kibana by uploading a maliciously crafted osquery pack.
• 6.1 CVE-2024-23442 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.
• 8.0 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…
• 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.
• 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.

Breaking changes

None in the release notes.

Security changes

• security Fixes CVE-2024-11390: Unrestricted upload of a file with dangerous type in Kibana can lead to arbitrary JavaScript execution in a victim’s browser (XSS) via crafted HTML and JavaScript files. The attacker must have acc… in 7.17.24
• security Fixes CVE-2024-37287: A flaw allowing arbitrary code execution was discovered in Kibana. An attacker with access to ML and Alerting connector features, as well as write access to internal ML indices can trigger a protot… in 7.17.23
• security Fixes CVE-2024-52974: An issue has been identified where a specially crafted request sent to an Observability API could cause the kibana server to crash. A successful attack requires a malicious user to have read permi… in 7.17.23
• security Fixes CVE-2024-43708: An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted payload to a number of inputs in Kibana UI. This can be carried out by users with… in 7.17.23
• security Fixes CVE-2024-52972: An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/metrics/snapshot. This can be carried out by users with read acce… in 7.17.23
• security Fixes CVE-2024-52973: An allocation of resources without limits or throttling in Kibana can lead to a crash caused by a specially crafted request to /api/log_entries/summary. This can be carried out by users with read a… in 7.17.23
• security Fixes CVE-2024-37281: An issue was discovered in Kibana where a user with Viewer role could cause a Kibana instance to crash by sending a large number of maliciously crafted requests to a specific endpoint. in 7.17.23
• security Fixes CVE-2024-23442: 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 7.17.22
• security Fixes CVE-2024-23443: A high-privileged user, allowed to create custom osquery packs 17 could affect the availability of Kibana by uploading a maliciously crafted osquery pack. in 7.17.22
• security Fixes CVE-2025-25016: Unrestricted file upload in Kibana allows an authenticated attacker to compromise software integrity by uploading a crafted malicious file due to insufficient server-side validation. in 7.17.19
• 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

Every release in between