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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.1

CVE-2022-38779 json

An open redirect issue was discovered in Kibana that could lead to a user being redirected to an arbitrary website if they use a maliciousl…

published 2023-02-21 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2022-41342

cvss
6.1
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 open redirect issue was discovered in Kibana that could lead to a user being redirected to an arbitrary website if they use a maliciously crafted Kibana URL.

Patch / fix

  • elastic kibana 7.17.9, 8.6.2

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-2022-38779 updated cvss 6.1

kibana: Kibana open redirect issue (ESA-2023-03)

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/elasticsearch-rhel8-operator, openshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix available
  • 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
    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

0.52% 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 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected products

  • Elastic kibana

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-601 URL Redirection to Untrusted Site

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.