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Security advisory
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.
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-11482
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-11482
Complete source record
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