CVE-2019-7609: Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution

Critical severity, CVSS 10.0. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-01-10. EPSS: 95.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kibana versions before 5.6.15 and 6.6.1 contain an arbitrary code execution flaw in the Timelion visualizer. An attacker with access to the Timelion application 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: before 5.6.15 (fixed in 5.6.15); from 6.0.0, before 6.6.1 (fixed in 6.6.1)
• Red Hat Openshift Container Platform: version 3.11 only; version 4.1 only

Published 2019-03-25. Last modified 2026-06-17.