High severity · published Jun 3, 2020
CVE-2020-7012
Kibana versions 6.7.0 to 6.8.8 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.2 contain a prototype pollution flaw in the Upgrade Assistant
8.8
CVSS
18.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Kibana versions 6.7.0 to 6.8.8 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.2 contain a prototype pollution flaw in the Upgrade Assistant. An authenticated attacker with privileges to write to the Kibana index could insert data that would cause Kibana to execute arbitrary code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing code with the permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)18.2% · higher than 97% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kibana · Elastic
6.7.0 through 6.8.8; 7.0.0 through 7.6.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-7012
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-7012
Vendor Advisory
https://www.elastic.co/community/security/
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