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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2025-68385 json

Kibana Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

published 2025-12-18 10 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 59 d ago also BIT-elk-2025-68385 , BIT-kibana-2025-68385 , EUVD-2025-204410

cvss
7.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 16%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79) allows an authenticated user to embed a malicious script in content that will be served to web browsers causing cross-site scripting (XSS) (CAPEC-63) via a method in Vega bypassing a previous Vega XSS mitigation.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami elk 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3
  • bitnami kibana 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3
  • elastic kibana 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3
  • elasticsearch kibana 8.19.9, 9.1.9, 9.2.3

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-2025-68385 updated cvss 7.2

Kibana: Kibana: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability allows authenticated users to embed malicious scripts

  • 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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
10 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 16% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
OSV 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami elk
<8.19.9
>=9.0.0, <9.1.9
>=9.2.0, <9.2.3
8.19.9
9.1.9
9.2.3
bitnami kibana
<8.19.9
>=9.0.0, <9.1.9
>=9.2.0, <9.2.3
8.19.9
9.1.9
9.2.3

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.