CVE-2017-11479: Elastic Kibana

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kibana versions prior to 5.6.1 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Timelion that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.0.2 only; version 5.1.1 only; version 5.1.2 only; version 5.2.0 only; …
• Elasticsearch Kibana: version 5.1.0 only

Published 2017-09-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.