Elasticsearch Kibana Improper Authentication Vulnerability
🗓️ 03 Jul 2017 00:00:00Reported by Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AGType
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| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 9 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2016-10364 | 16 Jun 201721:00 | – | cve | |
| CVE-2016-10364 | 16 Jun 201721:00 | – | cvelist | |
| EUVD-2016-1546 | 7 Oct 202500:30 | – | euvd | |
| CVE-2016-10364 | 16 Jun 201721:29 | – | nvd | |
| Elastic Kibana X-Pack 'CVE-2016-10364' Insufficient Access Restriction Vulnerability - Windows | 23 Oct 201700:00 | – | openvas | |
| Elastic Kibana X-Pack 'CVE-2016-10364' Insufficient Access Restriction Vulnerability - Linux | 23 Oct 201700:00 | – | openvas | |
| Code injection | 16 Jun 201721:29 | – | prion | |
| SUSE CVE-2016-10364 | 15 Feb 202304:53 | – | susecve | |
| Privilege Bypass | 19 Jun 201702:59 | – | veracode |
| Source | Link |
|---|---|
| elastic | www.elastic.co/community/security |
# 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
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.811410");
script_version("2025-09-03T14:11:39+0000");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10364");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2025-09-03 14:11:39 +0000 (Wed, 03 Sep 2025)");
script_tag(name:"severity_vector", value:"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/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:"creation_date", value:"2017-07-03 20:27:52 +0530 (Mon, 03 Jul 2017)");
script_name("Elasticsearch Kibana Improper Authentication Vulnerability");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Elasticsearch Kibana is prone to an improper authentication vulnerability.
This VT has been split into two VTs with the OIDs 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.108259 and 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.108260");
script_tag(name:"vuldetect", value:"Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The flaw is due to an improper authentication to
requests to advanced settings and the short URL service.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation will lead an
authenticated user to make requests to advanced settings and the short URL
services regardless of their own permissions.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Elasticsearch Kibana version 5.0.0 and 5.0.1.");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Update to Elasticsearch Kibana version
5.0.2 or later.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner_unreliable");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"https://www.elastic.co/community/security");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2017 Greenbone AG");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Web application abuses");
script_tag(name:"deprecated", value:TRUE);
exit(0);
}
exit(66);Data
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03 Sep 2025 00:00Current
6.7Medium risk
Vulners AI Score6.7
CVSS 24
CVSS 36.5
EPSS0.00986