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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2022-23707 json

An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns.

published 2022-02-11 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-28646

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated user with permissions to create index patterns can inject malicious javascript into the index pattern which could execute against other users

Patch / fix

  • elastic kibana 7.17.0

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-2022-23707 updated cvss 8.1

Kibana: Cross-site scripting issue (ESA-2022-01)

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 Kibana Kibana Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 Kibana Kibana
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 kibana, openshift3/ose-logging-kibana5 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-logging-kibana6, openshift4/ose-elasticsearch-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) puppet-kibana3
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.1 puppet-kibana3 Red Hat OpenStack Platform 16.2 puppet-kibana3
    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

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • Elastic Kibana

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.