CVE-2021-22142: Elastic Kibana

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Kibana contains an embedded version of the Chromium browser that the Reporting feature uses to generate the downloadable reports. If a user with permissions to generate reports is able to render arbitrary HTML with this browser, they may be able to leverage known Chromium vulnerabilities to conduct further attacks. Kibana contains a number of protections to prevent this browser from rendering arbitrary content.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 7.0.0, before 7.13.0 (fixed in 7.13.0)

Published 2023-11-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.