CVE-2019-7609
Published 2019-03-25 · Updated 2026-06-17 · Source security@elastic.co
Summary
CVE-2019-7609 is a critical-severity (CVSS 10.0) vulnerability in Elastic Kibana. CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on January 10, 2022, which means exploitation in the wild has been confirmed; US federal agencies had to remediate it by July 10, 2022. CISA does not currently list it as used in ransomware campaigns. Elastic has 3 vulnerabilities in the KEV catalog, 0 of them linked to ransomware.
All 3 known-exploited Elastic vulnerabilities →Description
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.
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA Known-Exploited Vulnerability
Product: Elastic — Kibana
Name: Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution
Date added: 2022-01-10 · Due: 2022-07-10
Required action: Apply updates per vendor instructions.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174569/Kibana-Timelion-Prototype-Pollution-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2860
- https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-6-6-1-and-5-6-15-security-update/169077
- https://www.elastic.co/community/security
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/174569/Kibana-Timelion-Prototype-Pollution-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:2824
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2860

