CVE-2021-22136 Security feature bypass in Kibana
Background polling extends user sessions indefinitely, bypassing idle timeout settings and keeping authenticated sessions active longer than intended.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2021-22136?
CVE-2021-22136 is a low-severity vulnerability in Elastic Kibana, published on 13 May 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
In Kibana versions before 7.12.0 and 6.8.15 a flaw in the session timeout was discovered where the xpack.security.session.idleTimeout setting is not being respected. This was caused by background polling activities unintentionally extending authenticated users sessions, preventing a user session from timing out.
Weakness: CWE-613
Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-22136?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Elastic Kibana.
How do I fix CVE-2021-22136?
No fix has been published for CVE-2021-22136 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2021-22136 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-22136 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Elastic Kibana
Sources
Also known as GHSA-w44m-x962-x72w.