CVE-2022-38779: Elastic Kibana

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An open redirect issue was discovered in Kibana that could lead to a user being redirected to an arbitrary website if they use a maliciously crafted Kibana URL.

Affected products

• Elastic Kibana: from 7.0.0, before 7.17.9 (fixed in 7.17.9); from 8.0.0, before 8.6.2 (fixed in 8.6.2)

Published 2023-02-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.