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medium 6.1

CVE-2017-11481 json

Kibana versions prior to 6.0.1 and 5.6.5 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via URL fields that could allow an attacker to obta…

published 2017-12-08 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-3099

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.8%
EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 58%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Kibana versions prior to 6.0.1 and 5.6.5 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via URL fields that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.

Patch / fix

  • kibana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 4.6.6-3.9.2
  • grafana OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 6.7.4-4.18.2
  • cassandra OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 3.11.10-5.3.5
  • python-py OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 1.4.34-3.3.3
  • crowbar-core OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 5.0+git.1622489449.a8e60e238-3.50.4
  • python-Django OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 1.11.29-3.25.3
  • ardana-cobbler OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 8.0+git.1614096566.e8c2b27-3.44.3
  • openstack-nova OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8, OpenStack Cloud 8, HPE Helion OpenStack 8 16.1.9~dev92-3.48.5

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2021:2554-1SUSE-SU-2021:1963-1SUSE-SU-2021:1962-1

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-2017-11481 updated cvss 6.1

kibana: XSS via URL fields

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) Operational Tools kibana Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 kibana Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools kibana Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools kibana
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

0.84% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 58% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/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.