High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-1000219
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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