CVE-2020-7013 Code injection in Kibana

High 7.2 Published Updated

Authenticated attackers can achieve arbitrary code execution via prototype pollution in TSVB visualizations, potentially escalating privileges on the 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-2020-7013?

CVE-2020-7013 is a high-severity code injection vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 3 Jun 2020. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Kibana versions before 6.8.9 and 7.7.0 contain a prototype pollution flaw in TSVB. An authenticated attacker with privileges to create TSVB visualizations could insert data that would cause Kibana to execute arbitrary code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing code with the permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-7013?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Elastic Kibana, Redhat Openshift Container Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2020-7013?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-7013 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2020-7013 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-7013 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as GHSA-7j4x-vm2f-rhf2.

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