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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2018-3818

Kibana versions 5.1.1 to 6.1.2 and 5.6.6 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the colored fields formatter that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.

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CVE-2018-3818
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1 Nov 2026, 07:19 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2018-3818

core-osv · Original source

Published 30 Mar 2018, 20:29 UTC

Kibana versions 5.1.1 to 6.1.2 and 5.6.6 had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via the colored fields formatter that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.

osv:CVE-2018-3818
Complete source record
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