Elastic Kibana <= 5.6.0 XSS Vulnerability
🗓️ 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 11 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin:IBM Security Guardium Big Data Intelligence (SonarG) is vulnerable to using Components with Known Vulnerabilities (CVE-2016-1000220, CVE-2017-11479) | 16 Jun 201822:05 | – | ibm | |
| CVE-2017-11479 | 28 Sep 201719:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2017-11479 | 28 Sep 201719:00 | – | cvelist | |
| X-Pack Alerting and Kibana 5.6.1 security update | 26 Sep 201716:56 | – | elastic | |
| EUVD-2017-3098 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2017-11479 | 29 Sep 201701:34 | – | nvd | |
| Cross site scripting | 29 Sep 201701:34 | – | prion | |
| CVE-2017-11479 | 11 Jan 201807:50 | – | redhatcve | |
| SUSE CVE-2017-11479 | 15 Feb 202304:42 | – | susecve | |
| Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) | 13 Nov 201708:57 | – | veracode |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
CPE = "cpe:/a:elastic:kibana";
if( description )
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.113010");
script_version("2025-09-03T14:11:39+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-03 14:11:39 +0000 (Wed, 03 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2017-10-09 13:04:33 +0200 (Mon, 09 Oct 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.3");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_origin", value:"NVD");
script_tag(name:"severity_date", value:"2020-08-14 17:30:00 +0000 (Fri, 14 Aug 2020)");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_cve_id("CVE-2017-11479");
script_name("Elastic Kibana <= 5.6.0 XSS Vulnerability");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_dependencies("gb_elastic_kibana_http_detect.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("elastic/kibana/detected");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The Timelion feature in Elastic Kibana is prone to a cross-site
scripting (XSS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the host.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation would allow the attacker to forge
GET-parameters and send a malicious link to a user that then performs actions against the host.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Elastic Kibana versions 5.0.0 through 5.6.0.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 5.6.1 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/x-pack-alerting-and-kibana-5-6-1-security-update/101884");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if( ! port = get_app_port( cpe: CPE ) )
exit( 0 );
if( ! version = get_app_version( cpe: CPE, port: port ) )
exit( 0 );
if( version_in_range( version: version, test_version: "5.0.0", test_version2: "5.6.0" ) ) {
report = report_fixed_ver( installed_version: version, fixed_version: "5.6.1" );
security_message( port: port, data: report );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );
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