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CVE-2020-7013 json

Kibana versions before 6.8.9 and 7.7.0 contain a prototype pollution flaw in TSVB.

published 6y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-28151

cvss
7.2
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.1%
EPSS 2.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 82%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Kibana versions before 6.8.9 and 7.7.0 contain a prototype pollution flaw in TSVB. An authenticated attacker with privileges to create TSVB visualizations could insert data that would cause Kibana to execute arbitrary code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing code with the permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Patch / fix

  • elastic kibana 6.8.9, 7.7.0

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Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2020-7013 updated cvss 7.2

kibana: Prototype pollution in TSVB could result in arbitrary code execution (ESA-2020-06)

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 kibana
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 openshift4/ose-logging-kibana6 v4.6.0-202010200139.p0
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:4298
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.6 openshift4/ose-cli v4.6.0-202010080605.p0, openshift4/ose-ptp v4.6.0-202010200139.p0, openshift4/ose-etcd v4.6.0-202010061132.p0, openshift4/ose-tests v4.6.0-202010120952.p0, openshift4/ose-console v4.6.0-202010100121.p0, openshift4/ose-coredns v4.6.0-202010061132.p0, +79 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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Exploit prediction

2.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 82% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Elastic Kibana

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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