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CVE-2018-17246 Public exploit EPSS 84.3%

Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin

Elastic · Kibana

Summary

The Console plugin in Elastic's Kibana, in versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13, contains an arbitrary file inclusion flaw. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a crafted request that attempts to execute JavaScript, potentially running arbitrary commands with the permissions of the Kibana process on the host.

Official description · CVE.org

Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API 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.

Breakdown
61.3 / 100
Exploited
Yes, in VulnCheck KEV
Reports
0
Tactics
0/15

First seen exploited 5 years after disclosure. Public exploit code (PoC-in-GitHub) appeared 3 months after disclosure.

  1. Disclosedday 0
  2. Public exploit codePoC-in-GitHub+3 mo
  3. First seen exploitedVulnCheck KEV evidence+5 yrs

techniques

No techniques linked

No ATT&CK techniques are linked to this CVE yet. MITRE CTID has not mapped it, and no report passage in the corpus ties it to a technique.

What security researchers reported

Not named in any threat report yet

Also mentioned in 3 community threat pulses (AlienVault OTX)

Weaker evidence

Pulses are indicator collections that anyone can publish. A mention is not confirmation of exploitation.

References

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