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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2016-1000219

Kibana before 4.5.4 and 4.1.11 when a custom output is configured for logging in, cookies and authorization headers could be written to the log files. This information could be used to hijack sessions of other users when using Kibana behind some form of authentication such as Shield.

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CVE-2016-1000219
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1 Nov 2026, 04:28 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2016-1000219

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Jun 2017, 21:29 UTC

Kibana before 4.5.4 and 4.1.11 when a custom output is configured for logging in, cookies and authorization headers could be written to the log files. This information could be used to hijack sessions of other users when using Kibana behind some form of authentication such as Shield.

osv:CVE-2016-1000219
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-1000219",
  "method": "structured",
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    "summary": "Kibana before 4.5.4 and 4.1.11 when a custom output is configured for logging in, cookies and authorization headers could be written to the log files. This information could be used to hijack sessions of other users when using Kibana behind some form of authentication such as Shield.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-1000219",
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}