{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 2 products.","exploited":"It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2018-17246 exists.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2018-17246 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 20 Dec 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-17246 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-17246 is a critical code injection vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 20 Dec 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2018-17246 exists.\n\nAffected product: Elastic Kibana. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17246/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17246/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-17246","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17246/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-17246","record":{"aliases":["GHSA-cpwf-64qm-2jpm"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["code_execution"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Kibana visualization tool","requires_auth":"none","summary":"An attacker with Console API access can inject JavaScript to execute arbitrary commands on the host system via the Kibana Console plugin.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"code_injection"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"elastic","cpe":[{"product":"kibana","vendor":"elastic"},{"product":"openshift_container_platform","vendor":"redhat"}],"cvss":{"score":9.8,"severity":"critical","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-829","name":"Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere"},{"id":"CWE-73","name":"External Control of File Name or Path"}],"description":"Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":"2019-03-08","github_poc":3,"max_poc_stars":65,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":1,"refs":[{"date":"2019-03-08T20:06:15Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/mpgn/CVE-2018-17246","stars":65,"title":"CVE-2018-17246 - Kibana LFI \u003c 6.4.3 \u0026 5.6.13"},{"date":"2025-05-09T02:14:42Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/Almandev/Sub-folderFetcher","stars":0,"title":"A script to download specific Vulhub repository folder (kibana/CVE-2018-17246) from GitHub."},{"date":"2026-10-28T03:41:15Z","kind":"github_poc","ref":"https://github.com/ght657/work1-secure-api","stars":0,"title":"HDU IS Work 1 - Secure REST API (Flask) with CI/CD (pytest + bandit + pip-audit) and CVE-2018-17246 analysis"},{"date":null,"kind":"nuclei","ref":"http/cves/2018/CVE-2018-17246.yaml","stars":null,"title":"Kibana - Local File Inclusion"}],"tier":"weaponised"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Code injection in Kibana","id":"CVE-2018-17246","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"elastic:kibana","products":["elastic:kibana","redhat:openshift_container_platform"],"type":"code_injection","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":4,"next":{"headline":"Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference in Elasticsearch","id":"CVE-2018-17247"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Information disclosure in Kibana","id":"CVE-2018-17245"},"products":["Kibana"],"published":"2018-12-20","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Kibana Arbitrary Code Execution","id":"CVE-2019-7609","kev_date_added":"2022-01-10","published":"2019-03-25"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution","id":"CVE-2025-25015","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-05"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Deserialization in Kibana","id":"CVE-2024-37288","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-09-09"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"Code injection in Kibana","id":"CVE-2023-31415","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2023-05-04"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Information disclosure in Kibana","id":"CVE-2018-17245","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2018-12-20"},{"cvss_score":9.1,"headline":"Kibana arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution","id":"CVE-2025-25014","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-05-06"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"MIT","name":"Nuclei templates"},{"class":"open","licence":"CC0","name":"PoC-in-GitHub"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-05","vendors":["Elastic"]},"summary":"An attacker with Console API access can inject JavaScript to execute arbitrary commands on the host system via the Kibana Console plugin.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-17246/"}