Is Kibana 7.17.16 affected?
Dec 12, 2023 · Release notes ↗
30 known vulnerabilities affect 7.17.16 (highest CVSS 9.1).
Your branch 7 has reached end of life (Jan 15, 2026).
13 newer releases in its track, up to 7.17.29. What changed up to 7.17.29
A newer release line is out: 9.5.6.
Vulnerabilities affecting 7.17.16
- 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… fixed in 7.17.23
- 8.7 CVE-2025-25018 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana can lead to stored Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) fixed in 8.18.8
- 8.7 CVE-2025-25009 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana can lead to Stored XSS via case file upload. fixed in 8.18.8
- 8.2 CVE-2025-25017 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation in Kibana can lead to Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) fixed in 8.18.8
- 7.7 CVE-2026-72670 A lower privileged user who holds only the privilege to read agent policies can read the entire configuration of a configured Fleet proxy. This would normally require the Fleet privilege to read se… fixed in 8.19.20
- 7.6 CVE-2024-43706 Improper authorization in Kibana can lead to privilege abuse via a direct HTTP request to a Synthetic monitor endpoint.
- 7.3 CVE-2026-78592 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') (CWE-22) in Kibana can lead to the unauthorized deletion of privileged resources via Path Traversal (CAPEC-126). A low…
- 7.2 CVE-2025-68385 Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79) allows an authenticated user to embed a malicious script in content that will be served to web browsers…
- 6.5 CVE-2026-78608 Missing Authorization (CWE-862) in Kibana can lead to information disclosure via Privilege Abuse (CAPEC-122). An authorization control was not applied to an internal Kibana APM integration function…
- 6.5 CVE-2026-0543 Improper Input Validation (CWE-20) in Kibana's Email Connector can allow an attacker to cause an Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) through a specially crafted email address parameter. This requires…
- 6.5 CVE-2026-0528 Improper Validation of Array Index (CWE-129) exists in Metricbeat can allow an attacker to cause a Denial of Service through Input Data Manipulation (CAPEC-153) via specially crafted, malformed pay… fixed in 7.17.29
- 6.5 CVE-2026-0530 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana Fleet can lead to Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) via a specially crafted request. This causes the application to perform r… fixed in 7.17.29
- 6.5 CVE-2026-0531 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana Fleet can lead to Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) via a specially crafted bulk retrieval request. This requires an attacker… fixed in 7.17.29
- 6.5 CVE-2025-68389 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CWE-770) in Kibana can allow a low-privileged authenticated user to cause Excessive Allocation (CAPEC-130) of computing resources and a denial…
- 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… fixed in 7.17.23
- 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… fixed in 7.17.23
- 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… fixed in 7.17.23
- 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… fixed in 7.17.23
- 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. fixed in 7.17.23
- 6.1 CVE-2025-68387 Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79) allows an unauthenticated user to embed a malicious script in content that will be served to web browse…
- 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. fixed in 7.17.22
- 5.4 CVE-2025-37732 Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79) allows an authenticated user to render HTML tags within a user’s browser via the integration package up…
- 5.4 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… fixed in 7.17.24
- 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. fixed in 7.17.22
- 4.3 CVE-2026-72671 A Kibana Machine Learning capability that removes a saved object from the current space accepts machine learning trained models as a target, but it verifies only the privileges that apply to anomal… fixed in 8.19.20
- 4.3 CVE-2026-63145 Incorrect Authorization (CWE-863) in Kibana can lead to integrity compromise of Machine Learning audit and notification records via Accessing Functionality Not Properly Constrained by ACLs (CAPEC-1… fixed in 8.19.19
- 4.3 CVE-2025-68386 Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to change a document's sharing type to "global," even though they do not ha…
- 4.3 CVE-2025-68422 Improper Authorization (CWE-285) in Kibana can lead to privilege escalation (CAPEC-233) by allowing an authenticated user to bypass intended permission restrictions via a crafted HTTP request. This…
- 4.3 CVE-2025-25012 URL redirection to an untrusted site ('Open Redirect') in Kibana can lead to sending a user to an arbitrary site and server-side request forgery via a specially crafted URL. fixed in 7.17.29
- 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. fixed in 7.17.19
Newer releases
| 7.17.29 | Jun 24, 2025 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.29 |
| 7.17.28 | Feb 25, 2025 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.28 |
| 7.17.27 | Jan 14, 2025 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.27 |
| 7.17.26 | Dec 3, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.26 |
| 7.17.25 | Oct 22, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.25 |
| 7.17.24 | Sep 10, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.24 |
| 7.17.23 | Jul 30, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.23 |
| 7.17.22 | Jun 13, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.22 |
| 7.17.21 | May 3, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.21 |
| 7.17.20 | Apr 10, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.20 |
| 7.17.19 | Mar 26, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.19 |
| 7.17.18 | Feb 6, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.18 |
| 7.17.17 | Jan 23, 2024 | 7.17.16 → 7.17.17 |