Medium
Security advisory
Starting in version 5.3.0, Kibana had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Discover page that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-8440
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:49 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Starting in version 5.3.0, Kibana had a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Discover page that could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information from or perform destructive actions on behalf of other Kibana users.
osv:CVE-2017-8440
Complete source record
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