CVE-2019-7616 Server-side request forgery in Kibana
Administrative users can exploit a Timelion configuration flaw to perform server-side request forgery, accessing external resources via the Kibana host.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2019-7616?
CVE-2019-7616 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 30 Jul 2019. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Kibana versions before 6.8.2 and 7.2.1 contain a server side request forgery (SSRF) flaw in the graphite integration for Timelion visualizer. An attacker with administrative Kibana access could set the timelion:graphite.url configuration option to an arbitrary URL. This could possibly lead to an attacker accessing external URL resources as the Kibana process on the host system.
Weakness: CWE-918
Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-7616?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Elastic Kibana.
How do I fix CVE-2019-7616?
No fix has been published for CVE-2019-7616 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.
Is CVE-2019-7616 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-7616 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Sources
Also known as GHSA-cjvv-mvp7-x62q.