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medium 6.5

CVE-2022-38778 json

A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a req…

published 2023-02-08 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-41341

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.9%
EPSS 0.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 59%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw (CVE-2022-38900) was discovered in one of Kibana’s third party dependencies, that could allow an authenticated user to perform a request that crashes the Kibana server process.

Patch / fix

  • decode-uri-component_project decode-uri-component 0.2.1
  • elastic kibana 7.17.9, 8.6.1

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-2022-38778 updated cvss 6.5

kibana: Kibana authenticated Denial of Service issue (ESA-2023-02)

  • Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6 kibana kibana Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 kibana kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 kibana, kibana kibana, openshift3/ose-logging-kibana5 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
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8, openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel8-operator, openshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel8-operator
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.89% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Elastic kibana

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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