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critical 9.8

CVE-2018-17245 json

Kibana versions 4.0 to 4.6, 5.0 to 5.6.12, and 6.0 to 6.4.2 contain an error in the way authorization credentials are used when generating…

published 2018-12-20 7 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2018-9004

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.5%
EPSS 1.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 74%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Kibana versions 4.0 to 4.6, 5.0 to 5.6.12, and 6.0 to 6.4.2 contain an error in the way authorization credentials are used when generating PDF reports. If a report requests external resources plaintext credentials are included in the HTTP request that could be recovered by an external resource provider.

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-2018-17245 updated cvss 7.5

kibana: Information leak in the PDF generation process

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 kibana
    +7 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0 kibana Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 kibana Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) Operational Tools kibana Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9 (Mitaka) Operational Tools kibana
    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

1.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 74% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Elastic Kibana

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-201 Insertion of Sensitive Information Into Sent Data
  • CWE-522 Insufficiently Protected Credentials

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.