CVE-2018-3819· NVD / CVE Program· CNA elastic

The fix in Kibana for ESA-2017-23 was incomplete.

The fix in Kibana for ESA-2017-23 was incomplete. With X-Pack security enabled, Kibana versions before 6.1.3 and 5.6.7 have an open redirect vulnerability on the login page that would enable an attacker to craft a link that redirects to an arbitrary website.

MediumCVSS 6.1 · v3.0—No exploit No fix recorded

Published: Mar 30, 2018
Updated: Jun 16, 2026
EPSS: 0.8% · 56th percentile
CWE: CWE-601

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CVSS: 24 / 40 · 6.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.8%

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Affected systems

Vendor	Product	CPE
elastic	kibana	cpe:2.3:a:elastic:kibana

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

elastic kibanabefore 5.6.7
elastic kibana6.0.0 and later · before 6.1.3

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (elastic). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

Elastic Kibana
- All versions before 6.1.3 and 5.6.7affected

Same product

elastic: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

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99Now
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64This week
CVE-2025-25014Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution
45Plan
CVE-2020-7012Kibana versions 6.7.0 to 6.8.8 and 7.0.0 to 7.6.2 contain a prototype pollution flaw in the Upgrade Assistant.
40Plan
CVE-2024-12556Kibana Prototype Pollution can lead to code injection
39Monitor
CVE-2025-25015Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution
39Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

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Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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EPSS, last 120 days

FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).

Patch and commit links

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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