Elastic Kibana 7.9.0 - 7.17.9, 8.0.0 - 8.6.2 XSS Vulnerability (ESA-2023-05)
🗓️ 04 May 2023 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2023 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 22 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Bulletin: Vega Vulnerabilities affect IBM Decision Optimization in IBM Cloud Pak for Data (CVE-2023-26486, CVE-2023-26487) | 11 May 202313:51 | – | ibm | |
| CVE-2023-26486 | 4 Mar 202302:35 | – | circl | |
| Vega 跨站脚本漏洞 | 4 Mar 202300:00 | – | cnnvd | |
| CVE-2023-26486 | 3 Mar 202323:48 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2023-26486 Vega `scale` expression function cross site scripting | 3 Mar 202323:48 | – | cvelist | |
| CVE-2023-26486 | 3 Mar 202323:48 | – | debiancve | |
| Elastic Stack 8.7.0, 7.17.10 Security Updates | 2 May 202316:01 | – | elastic | |
| EUVD-2023-0871 | 3 Oct 202520:07 | – | euvd | |
| Vega Expression Language `scale` expression function Cross Site Scripting | 2 Mar 202323:11 | – | github | |
| Vulnerabilities fixed in Elastic products | 3 May 202300:00 | – | ncsc |
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# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 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("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.149633");
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:"2023-05-04 04:59:51 +0000 (Thu, 04 May 2023)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"6.4");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.1/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:"2023-03-09 20:30:00 +0000 (Thu, 09 Mar 2023)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2023-26486");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_name("Elastic Kibana 7.9.0 - 7.17.9, 8.0.0 - 8.6.2 XSS Vulnerability (ESA-2023-05)");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2023 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:"Kibana is prone to a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"A flaw was discovered in one of Kibana's dependencies, which
could allow arbitrary JavaScript to be executed in a victim's browser via a maliciously crafted
custom visualization in Kibana.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Kibana version 7.9.0 through 7.17.9 and 8.0.0 through 8.6.2.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to version 7.17.10, 8.7.0 or later.");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-stack-8-7-0-7-17-10-security-updates/332327");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!port = get_app_port(cpe: CPE))
exit(0);
if (!infos = get_app_version_and_location(cpe: CPE, port: port, exit_no_version: TRUE))
exit(0);
version = infos["version"];
location = infos["location"];
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "7.9.0", test_version2: "7.17.9")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "7.17.10", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
if (version_in_range(version: version, test_version: "8.0.0", test_version2: "8.6.2")) {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "8.7.0", install_path: location);
security_message(port: port, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);
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