Medium
Security advisory
Kibana versions 5.3.0 to 6.4.1 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the source field formatter that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2018-3830
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:57 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Kibana versions 5.3.0 to 6.4.1 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the source field formatter that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.
osv:CVE-2018-3830
Complete source record
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