Detections
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Kibana 7.17.6 < 7.17.24 / 8.4.x < 8.12.0 XSS (ESA-2024-20)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 235658

Synopsis

The remote host is missing a security update.

Description

Unrestricted upload of a file with dangerous type in Kibana can lead to arbitrary JavaScript execution in a victim's browser (XSS) via crafted HTML and JavaScript files. The attacker must have access to the Synthetics app AND/OR have access to write to the synthetics indices.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to Kibana version 7.17.24, 8.12.0 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?a7e92f0a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 235658

File Name: kibana_ESA-2024-20.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 5/9/2025

Updated: 5/9/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-11390

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:elasticsearch:kibana

Required KB Items: installed_sw/Kibana

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/1/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11390

IAVB: 2025-B-0072