Medium severity · published Feb 11, 2022
CVE-2022-23707
An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns
5.4
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An XSS vulnerability was found in Kibana index patterns. Using this vulnerability, an authenticated user with permissions to create index patterns can inject malicious javascript into the index pattern which could execute against other users
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Scope
Changed
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 44% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KI
Kibana · Elastic
7.5.1 before 7.17.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-23707
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-23707
Patch
https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-7-17-0-security-update/296215
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