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Kibana Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Type: advisorySources: OSV

An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby sensitive information may be recorded in Kibana logs in the event of an error. Elastic has released Kibana 8.11.1 which resolves this issue. The error message recorded in the log may contain account credentials for the kibana_system user, API Keys, and credentials of Kibana end-users. The issue occurs infrequently, only if an error is returned from an Elasticsearch cluster, in cases where there is user interaction and an unhealthy cluster (for example, when returning circuit breaker or no shard exceptions).

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2023-46671
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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7 Nov 2026, 03:11 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Kibana Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Dec 2023, 06:57 UTC

An issue was discovered by Elastic whereby sensitive information may be recorded in Kibana logs in the event of an error. Elastic has released Kibana 8.11.1 which resolves this issue. The error message recorded in the log may contain account credentials for the kibana_system user, API Keys, and credentials of Kibana end-users. The issue occurs infrequently, only if an error is returned from an Elasticsearch cluster, in cases where there is user interaction and an unhealthy cluster (for example, when returning circuit breaker or no shard exceptions).

osv:CVE-2023-46671
Complete source record
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