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high 7.5

CVE-2016-1000219 json

Kibana before 4.5.4 and 4.1.11 when a custom output is configured for logging in, cookies and authorization headers could be written to the…

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2016-1163

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 81%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Kibana before 4.5.4 and 4.1.11 when a custom output is configured for logging in, cookies and authorization headers could be written to the log files. This information could be used to hijack sessions of other users when using Kibana behind some form of authentication such as Shield.

Patch / fix

  • elastic kibana 4.1.11, 4.5.4
  • kibana openshift 3.2, openshift 3.1 4.1.11-1.el7
  • openshift-elasticsearch-plugin openshift 3.2, openshift 3.1 0.16.0.redhat_1-1.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2016:1836

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2016-1000219 updated cvss 4.8

kibana: Session hijack via stealing cookies and auth headers from log ESA-2016-04

  • 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 Container Platform 3.2 kibana 4.1.11-1.el7, openshift-elasticsearch-plugin 0.16.0.redhat_1-1.el7 Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 kibana 4.1.11-1.el7, openshift-elasticsearch-plugin 0.16.0.redhat_1-1.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2016:1836
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) Operational Tools kibana
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 81% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

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