CVE-2018-17246: Elastic Kibana

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 82.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 5.0.0, before 5.6.13 (fixed in 5.6.13); from 6.0.0, before 6.4.3 (fixed in 6.4.3)
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only

Published 2018-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-17.