Kibana versions prior to 4.1.3 and 4.2.1 are vulnerable to a XSS attack.

published 2017-06-16 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-8910

cvss: 6.1; version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 57%
public exploits: 0; none known

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

elastic kibana 4.1.3, 4.2.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-9056 updated 2026-05-13 cvss 6.1

kibana: Cross-site scripting in kibana prior to 4.1.3 and 4.2.1

Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Operational Tools kibana Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools kibana Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools kibana
affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 kibana Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) Operational Tools kibana
not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.83% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 57% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
NVD	3.0	6.1	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD	2.0	4.3	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

Elastic Kibana

Classification

Weakness

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

elastic.co /community/security
vendor-advisory

Sources

CVE List CVE-2015-9056
NVD CVE-2015-9056

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Summary