CVE-2017-11482 Open redirect in Kibana

Medium 6.1 Published Updated

An attacker can craft a malicious link on the Kibana login page to redirect users to arbitrary websites, potentially facilitating phishing attacks.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
None listed

What is CVE-2017-11482?

CVE-2017-11482 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 8 Dec 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Kibana fix for CVE-2017-8451 was found to be incomplete. With X-Pack installed, Kibana versions before 6.0.1 and 5.6.5 have an open redirect vulnerability on the login page that would enable an attacker to craft a link that redirects to an arbitrary website.

Weakness: CWE-601

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-11482?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Elastic Kibana.

How do I fix CVE-2017-11482?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-11482 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2017-11482 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-11482 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Elastic Kibana vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-28c3-wp2j-prjr.

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