Critical
Security advisory
Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-17246
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:03 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Kibana versions before 6.4.3 and 5.6.13 contain an arbitrary file inclusion flaw in the Console plugin. An attacker with access to the Kibana Console API could send a request that will attempt to execute javascript code. This could possibly lead to an attacker executing arbitrary commands with permissions of the Kibana process on the host system.
osv:CVE-2018-17246
Complete source record
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